Helene Deutsch Quotes

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

  Helene Deutsch

  Lonely, Numbers, Persons

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton

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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

  Maturity, Emotional, Ties

  Helene Deutsch (1958). “The Psychology of Women”

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

  Helene Deutsch

  Objectivity, Goal, Research

  Helene Deutsch (1954). “The Psychology of Women: Girlhood”

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

  Helene Deutsch

  Guilt, Heavy, Whole

  Helene Deutsch (1945). “The psychology of woman: a psychoanalytic interpretation. motherhood”, Saunders

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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.

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  Women, Thinking, Intellectual

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Girlhood”

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

  Helene Deutsch

  Expression, Interesting, Phases

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Girlhood”

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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

  Thinking, Rights, Progress

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton

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

  Helene Deutsch

  Psychology, Normal, Partition

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton

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• for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

  Helene Deutsch

  Travel, People, Psychological

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

  Helene Deutsch

  All The Best, Impulse, Adolescence

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

  Helene Deutsch

  Insecure, Soul, Insecurity

  Helene Deutsch (1944). “The psychology of women”

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