Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life. — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
As other perceptions arise...the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed. — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive. — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
![“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development…” quote by Jean Baker Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa0/jean-baker-miller-35597_ability_they-women-can-use-their-abilities-to-su_1433340.jpg)
