The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

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

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.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

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

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

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 mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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.

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

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

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

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

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

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

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?

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

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

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

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

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 great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.