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I worry that this place, the solitude of my life in this apartment, in this city, has turned my memories monstrous. That loneliness can make once-beautiful things terrifying.

The task of describing most private experiences can be likened to reaching down to a deep well to pick up small fragile crystal figures while you are wearing thick leather mittens.

Sherry knew that picking her skin was a destructive thing to do and that it was related to her mother's neglect, but understanding the source of the impulse made no difference in helping her control it.

The ideal woman in novels is still the beautiful, quietly angelic and obedient female, who does not show any particular boldness or ambition. The perfect woman is as pure, and as sweet, and as gently unassuming, as she ever was. A woman with courage or ambition, with eyes wide open, and who shows audacity and strength, is still considered ugly, repulsive, coarse and vulgar.

When he came to God's directive 'do not kill your children,' which refers especially to the practice of burying new-born female babies alive in order to get rid of them, she said 'it is you who have killed our children.'

The woman has therefore lost real ownership of her own body, it having been taken over by the State which, in modern society, has inherited much of the authority and functions which at one time were those of the father in the primitive patriarchal system.

The notes I've acquired from Yale Psychiatric Institute read, among other things, "Patient shows lack of insight."

Depression is often compared with diabetes - in other words, it's not your fault if you get it, and you'll be fine if you just take care of it. Schizophrenia, on the other hand, is compared to Alzheimer's - it's still not your fault if you get it, but there's no fixing it, and though you may not intend to be a burden, you'll still be one until you die.

They are wicked and wily in their actions and particularly malevolent towards me, I must not wait until the blow falls.

Mary was "inconsolable at the loss she has sustained, especially when she thinks of her father's past behavior towards herself, and the little favor she can expect for the future."

Mary was "inconsolable at the loss she had sustained, especially when she thinks of her father's past behavior towards herself, and the little favor she can expect for the future."

There is no more efficacious tonic for a grief-stricken widow than the prospect of accumulating political power.

Reading American press accounts of the war from the early sixties through the early seventies, I was bemused by their simultaneous condescension toward and admiration for the Hmong, who were portrayed as noble savages with thrillingly ferocious temperaments...