Impulses Traced Quotes by Helene Deutsch

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

— Helene Deutsch

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

— Helene Deutsch

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

— Helene Deutsch

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

— Helene Deutsch

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

— Helene Deutsch

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

— Helene Deutsch

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

— Helene Deutsch

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant…

— Helene Deutsch

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

— Helene Deutsch

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

— Helene Deutsch