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

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.

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 the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

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