Karen Horney

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.

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

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time