Karen Horney

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

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

“The proud person is in perpetual conflict with others.”

“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”

“Man can change and go on changing as long as he lives.”

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

“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.”

“If you want to be proud of yourself, you have to do things you can be proud of.”

“The basic anxiety is a feeling of being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world.”

“Neurosis is a disturbance in one's relation to self and to others.”

“If I couldn't be a pretty girl, I would be a smart girl.”

“We must be aware of the tremendous difference between wishing to be and being.”

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated.”

“There is a difference between a healthy striving for perfection and a neurotic one.”