Bed Quote by Dorothy West

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in…

— Antoni Tapies

“Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you…

— Boris Pasternak

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life…

— Henry Miller

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but…

— Haruki Murakami

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was…

— Isabel Allende

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Anonymous

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that…

— Ingrid Betancourt

What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few…

— MacDonald Harris

“I have had my homes razed, raided and burned to the ground, my towers gutted, marauded, and blasted, and my castles pillaged, defiled, and…

— Joseph J. Bailey

It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress…

— Herta Muller

“New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside…

— Laura Anderson Kurk