Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

I'm cautious about a lot of words

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.