However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

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