American - Psychologist | September 16, 1885 - December 4, 1952
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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