All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.

One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

There's no easy way to be free.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.