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"When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition."
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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
"We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently."
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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
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