I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.