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.

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.

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

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

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 don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

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.