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

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.