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Princess Marie Bonaparte
(2 Jul 1882 - 21 Sep 1962)
French psychoanalyst who was a great-grand-niece of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Science Quotes by Princess Marie Bonaparte (1 quote)
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper—menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition—woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.
— Princess Marie Bonaparte
'Passivity, Masochism and Femininity', Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1935, 16, 327.
See also:
- 2 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Bonaparte's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
