In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said…

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

— Adrienne Rich

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

“There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your letter. The…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around,” said the poet Adrienne Rich.”

— Alfie Kohn

Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her…

— Earl Scruggs

“Traveling together into what the poet Adrienne Rich has called ‘the cratered night of female memory,’ they undertook a shared process of self-discovery, working…

— Janet Kaplan

“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

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 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

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

— Lionel Barber

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

— Fernando Perez

“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 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