The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

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.

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

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

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