 They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that. |
| What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? |
| This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. |
| However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. |
| This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. |
| You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin. |
| Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. |
| The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. |
| We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. |
| 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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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. |
| Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard. |
| I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
