Jean Baker Miller Quotes

#1. In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Jean Baker Miller

#2. As other perceptions arise ... the total vision of human possibilities enlarges and is transformed.

Jean Baker Miller

#3. Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

Jean Baker Miller

#4. The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

Jean Baker Miller

#5. As a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

Jean Baker Miller

#6. Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

Jean Baker Miller

#7. Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

Jean Baker Miller

#8. Psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Jean Baker Miller