# Quote — Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

> Naked, we needed protection, and the hospital protected us. Of course, the hospital had stripped us naked in the first place—but that just underscored its obligation to shelter us. And the hospital fulfilled its obligation. Somebody in our families had to pay a good deal of money for that: sixty dollars (1967 dollars) a day just for the room; therapy, drugs, and consultations were extra. Ninety days was the usual length of mental-hospital insurance coverage, but ninety days was barely enough to get started on a visit to McLean. My workup alone took ninety days. The price of several of those college educations I didn’t want was spent on my hospitalization.

- Author: [Susanna Kaysen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-kaysen.md)
- Book: [Girl, Interrupted](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-kaysen/girl-interrupted.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-kaysen/girl-interrupted/naked-we-needed

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-kaysen/girl-interrupted/when-women-are.md)

> The world didn’t stop because we weren’t in it anymore; far from it. Night after night tiny bodies fell to the ground on our TV screen: black people, young people, Vietnamese people, poor people—some dead, some only bashed up for the moment. There were always more of them to replace the fallen and join them the next night. Then came the period when people we knew—not knew personally, but knew of—started falling to the ground: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy. Was that more alarming? Lisa said it was natural. “They gotta kill them,” she explained. “Otherwise it’ll never settle down.”

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> Is this the type of friend or lover I want to have? I ask myself every time I meet someone new. Charming but shallow; good-hearted but a bit conventional; too handsome for his own good; fascinating but probably unreliable; and so forth. I guess I've had my share of unreliable. More than my share? How many would constitute more than my share?

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