The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

a normal human being ... does not exist.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.