one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.