Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with… — Charles D'Ambrosio 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
I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. — Annette Funicello Copy Share Image
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence. — Jane Lazarre Copy Share Image
I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I think that social migration to another economic class requires a kind of negotiating with yourself. And also, there's so much ambivalence… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
“A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence… — John Scott Copy Share Image
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and… — Caroline Pafford Miller Copy Share Image
“The sulker is a complicated creature, giving off messages of deep ambivalence, crying out for help and attention, while at the same… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
