Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in...secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circusmaster managerial competence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If intercourse gives you thrombosis And continence causes neurosis,... I'd rather expire Fulfilling desire Than live in a state of psychosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O., and made my manic statement,... telling off the state and president, and then sat waiting sentence in the bull pen beside a Negro boy with curlicues of marijuana in his hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one ...effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic ...has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I seemed intent on making it as difficult for myself as possible to pursue my "male" career goal. I not only procrastinated endles...sly, submitting my medical school application at the very last minute, but continued to crave a conventional female role even as I moved ahead with my "male" pursuits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had not come to America, where I felt free to formulate tentatively insights at which I had empathically arrived, I would hav...e accomplished very little. I would never have begun to publish, to teach, to undertake research. Because if one does not find an assenting echo to one's ideas, if one is passed over, as I was in Vienna, then one cannot create. To create, after all, is to believe that what one says will count.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »