That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

- Judith Perelman Rossner

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It…

- Judith Perelman Rossner

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no pr…

- Judith Perelman Rossner

What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born beca…

- Judith Perelman Rossner

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.…

- Judith Perelman Rossner

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

- Judith Perelman Rossner

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

- Judith Perelman Rossner

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate…

- Judith Perelman Rossner

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of …

- Judith Perelman Rossner