They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your…

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be…

— Jessica Valenti

“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels. The killing…

— Echo and the Bunnymen

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

— Lionel Barber

“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

— Anna Quindlen

“The problem is that when you’re not fighting for survival, it’s easy to stop making decisions and fall into the trap of thinking you…

— Ben Ryder Howe

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

— Matt Groening

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing…

— Faye Wattleton

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence,…

— John Ortberg

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

Real love, the kind you have with a person, must go through ambivalence.There is simply no way around it.

— Kumar Anupam

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between…

— Adrienne Rich

“Life had this unmoored quality, full of voids and barely acknowledged yearnings, and if I'd made a list of things I wanted desperately at…

— Caroline Knapp

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

— Louise Bourgeois