Helene Deutsch

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After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Truth
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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.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Freedom
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that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Lonely
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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.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Maturity
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It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Expression
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[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Guilt
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All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Women
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for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Travel
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only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Psychology
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All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: All The Best
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The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Insecure