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

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

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.

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

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

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

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.