If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

a normal human being ... does not exist.