“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

“But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.”

“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”

“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”

“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”

“It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.”

“Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.”