HELENE DEUTSCH

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.