Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

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.

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.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

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.