Occupation: Writer Birth: September 14, 1934
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so s….
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 me….
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 exerc….
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a n….
It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way..
The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selli….
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that..
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invent….
There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days..
A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is r….
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 f….
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy..
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..
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need ….
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who….
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 assig….
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning..
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time..
Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had..
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing..
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibilit….