Activist

Psychiatry causes so much death.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

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

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.