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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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

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.

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

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

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

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.