Jean Baker Miller

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

— Jean Baker Miller

Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

— Jean Baker Miller

As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.

— Jean Baker Miller

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

— Jean Baker Miller

Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually…

— Jean Baker Miller

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are…

— Jean Baker Miller

The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious…

— Jean Baker Miller

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with…

— Jean Baker Miller

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or…

— Jean Baker Miller

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous…

— Jean Baker Miller

The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are…

— Jean Baker Miller

Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action… Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and…

— Jean Baker Miller

Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human…

— Jean Baker Miller