Famous Quotes

"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."

Anna Freud on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Anna Freud

• "Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"

• "We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."

• "My different personalities leave me in peace now."

• "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."