Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
