Quotes by Robert Johnson

“Men are getting soft and gentle and standing back, and women are getting sharper and having careers and taking a bigger place and coming out more. So theres a new kind of marriage to be seen in which the woman is dominant and makes the decisions. Her quick masculine wit and humor and idea and plan is out there before the man can even speak.”

“History seems to be so clumsy.”

“I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.”

“If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. Shell look for a husband who embodies those qualities.”

“We live in a time of great change in how men and women see themselves and how they respond to life and to each other.”

“The deepest thing I have to say in comment to that is that the principle work is to be done within the individual him/herself, and to learn to cope with ones own masculinity and femininity within is an absolute prerequisite before one has the right to talk about exterior relationships.”

“History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesnt have to get caught in that.”

“I think the patriarchal world has reigned supreme for so long that the pendulums swinging too far the other way. It needed to be rectified, but to swing the pendulum too far the other way is almost as bad.”

“I like the old custom of godparents. Neither of my parents were good carriers or teachers for me, and at age 15, I had the instinctive sense to go out and get myself a pair of godparents.”

“Thats how I torture myself,”

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Measure yourself by your best moments not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

History seems to be so clumsy.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesnt have to get caught in that.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasnt the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.