[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.

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

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.

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

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

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.