The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are certain that in the same situation we should behave in just the same way. The way in which the readiness to love, however great, is banished by bodily ailments, and suddenly replaced by complete indifference, is a theme which has been sufficiently exploited by comic writers.

Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.

O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.

Algı , Ben için, O’da güdülerin oynadığı role karşılık gelir. Tutkuları içinde barındıran O’nun tersine, Ben akıl ve sağduyu olarak adlandırdıklarımızı temsil eder. Tüm bunlar herkesçe bilinen popüler farklarla örtüşür, ama yalnızca ortalama ya da ideal durumda doğru olarak kabul edilmelidir.”sayfa 49