"There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing"

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Source : Karen Horney (1980). “The Adolescent Diaries of Karen Horney”, Basic Books (AZ)

Karen Horney

#Self Quotes #Expression Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
“Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.”
“I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.”
“Talent is not sexually transmitted.”

Source : "10 Wrestling Couples That Prove Talent Can't Be Sexually Transmitted", whatculture.com. June 20, 2015.
“I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.”
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”
“Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.”

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