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

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.

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?

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

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

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.