The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness… — Ben Doller Copy Share Image
I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it… — Valeria Golino Copy Share Image
“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am always very happy—maybe because I want so much to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and… — Lissie Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly. — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
