Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

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

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.