Karen Horney Quotes
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“The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.”
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“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
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“When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.”
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“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.”
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“Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.”
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“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
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“The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.”
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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.”
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“Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.”
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“Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.”