I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“Spring and Fall” …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression. …For… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
