Mary Walsh

"My husband is teaching me to drive a standard. He's a professor anyways - he's not a bad teacher, if you know what I mean."

"People go, 'You're going to be so happy driving; it's going to feel so free.' And I felt the very opposite of free. I felt like a person with 2,000 pounds of dangerous, dangerous metal strapped to my back, rattling around."

"And it occurred to me early on that if you were just an old bat, all of those things could disappear and you could just be yourself, right? You could just be funny, or a person, or you could say what you liked, and you wouldn't have to worry… It was like a way to break through that incredibly oppressive thing that is put over you, or you put it over yourself as a young woman, you know?"