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

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

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.

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.

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.