Karen Horney Quotes

I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

I have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can take care of it. A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that... It does take a father, though

I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.

I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so confusing and so exciting. Women are so amazing that their bodies can do this and that they're strong enough to do this. I can't believe almost every woman goes through this, because it's so hard.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

My body is a baby machine.

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.