Some people call it self-confidence, I call it ambivalence…

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