Editing Patricia Soltysik (section)

==Early life and education==
Patricia's father was a pharmacist. She had two older brothers and was the third of seven children, and the eldest of five girls. She grew up in [[Goleta, California]]. Soltysik graduated from [[Dos Pueblos High School]] in 1968 in the top 10 percent of her class, where she was elected student body treasurer.<ref name="Book">{{cite book |last=Soltysik |first=Fred |title=In Search of a Sister |year=1976 |publisher=Bantam |location=New York |asin=B0006WBNXU |page=248 |quote=21-35 }}</ref>

In 1968 she gained a state scholarship and enrolled in the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. While at Berkeley she became embittered by the [[People's Park (Berkeley)|"Bloody Thursday" incident]] in 1971 in which police killed a protester.<ref name="Book"/> Drifting into leftist groups, she became a [[Radical feminism|radical feminist]] and self-avowed revolutionary. 

In 1971 Soltysik attached herself to the radical ex-convict group [[United Prisoners Union]] and dropped out of college. She and her neighbor, [[Camilla Hall]], a former social worker and painter, became lovers in what was Hall's first lesbian relationship. Hall nicknamed Soltysik as "Mizmoon."<ref name="Toobin">{{cite book| last = Toobin | first =Jeffrey | author-link=Jeffrey Toobin | title =American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst | publisher = Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | year = 2016| page = 11| isbn = 978-0385536714}}</ref>