To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

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.

The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.