From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned