Status Updates From The Mad Women's Ball

“Not for her a life like that of her mother, who is sitting on her right - a life bounded by the four walls of a bourgeois apartment, a life lived according to the timetable and decisions of a man…”

“Illness dehumanises; it makes puppets of these women, at the mercy of their grotesque symptoms, rag dolls in the hands of doctors who manipulate and examine every fold of skin; curious animals who elicit only a clinical curiosity.”