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When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.

— Susanna Kaysen

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As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn’t have.

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

But most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists. And who can resist an opening?

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

My family had a lot of characteristics—achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations—that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

Another odd feature of the parallel universe is that although it is invisible from this side, once you are in it you can easily see the world you came from.

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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