Helene Deutsch Quotes

#1. For many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

Helene Deutsch

#2. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Derek Bok

#3. 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

#4. What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

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

Helene Deutsch

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Helene Deutsch

#9. I wished I could erase everything else and hold on to this moment, this brief second when he and I knew how much we meant to each other.

Kiera Cass

#10. That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

Helene Deutsch

#11. A Kind Act can sometimes be as Powerful as A Sword

Rick Riordan

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

Helene Deutsch

#13. Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

Ameya Agrawal

#14. To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.

Ehab Atalla

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

Helene Deutsch

#16. If your beauty is unquestioned, so many other things can go unquestioned as well.

David Levithan

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

Helene Deutsch

#18. Yes, she would have been partial to men, perhaps she might even have confined herself to one man in particular, if only she had been able to find one who shared her view that intimacy between two people was of value irrespective of whether it led to sticky conflux.

Jonathan Coe

#19. The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. Only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Helene Deutsch

#21. I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

Ray Bradbury

#22. Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

Rajneesh