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• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
• The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the…
• There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
• No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways…
• If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.
• There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on…
• Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of…
• We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
• The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be…
• Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is…
• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one.…
• To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

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