Occupation: Writer Birth: September 14, 1934
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing..
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there i….
There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days..
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time..
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion..
What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it..
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….
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..
Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, ….
Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had..
I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill….
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself..
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the b….
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….
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are ….
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….
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who….
No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral..
Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality..
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….