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.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both!