If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

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

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.