“In reality there is no normal. Normal is something people have agreed to invent so we have something to compare ourselves to. Normal should be the least of your worries.”

“We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.”

“I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people-and especially doctors- had doubts about normality. They weren't sure normality was up the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost.”

“Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal.”

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

“Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.”