It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.