That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

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.

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

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.

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

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.