Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

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 is no physical proof.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.