I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

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.

Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.

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

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

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.