The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

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.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

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.

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

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

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.