Ambivalence Quotes

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

— Jessica Valenti

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— Faye Wattleton

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

— 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

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

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Louise Bourgeois

I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world…

— Nan Goldin

From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came…

— Raoul Peck

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

— Jim Goldberg

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

— Susanna Rowson

The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for…

— Ellen Willis

[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious…

— Camille Paglia

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do…

— C. Sommerville

Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able…

— Pope John Paul II

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse…

— Will Self

Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by…

— Sigmund Freud

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work…

— Alice S Rossi

“Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might ," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. '…

— J.G. Ballard

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him,…

— Andrea Dworkin