Harriet Lerner Quotes (7 Quotes)

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.

We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.