Harriet Lerner Quotes

Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a contributor to feminist theory and therapy. From 1972 to 2001 she was a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas and a faculty member and supervisor in the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry. During this time she published extensively on the psychology of women and family relationships, revising traditional psychoanalytic concepts to reflect feminist and family systems perspectives. Her younger son is the National Book Award-nominated poet and novelist Ben Lerner. Her eldest son, Matt Lerner, is the co-founder of Walk Score.

✵ 30. November 1944
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Harriet Lerner Quotes

“The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.”

Harriet Lerner

Source: Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up

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