Kate Millett

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

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.

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

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.