I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

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

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

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

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 concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

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.