Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Helene Deutsch
Born: October 9, 1884
Died: March 29, 1982 (aged 97)
Bio: Helene Deutsch was a Polish American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women.
Known for:
- The psychology of women (1944)
- Confrontations with myself (1973)
- Neuroses and character types (1965)