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.

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?

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.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

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

a normal human being ... does not exist.