The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.