... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.