suicide is the ultimate ...

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
 Joanne Greenberg

Quotes from the same author

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
 Joanne Greenberg
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
 Joanne Greenberg
And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.
 Joanne Greenberg
If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?
 Joanne Greenberg