Dorothy West Quote

Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.

The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences (ed. Anchor, 1996)