"The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a……" — Karen Horney
"The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men."
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26 Quotes by Karen Horney
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- Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view…
- The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work…
- 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…
- 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…
- Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their…
- We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into…
- The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere,…
- Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world…
- That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the…
- To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
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