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
“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
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
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an… — Beatrice Webb 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
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy. — Matt Groening 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent. — Lionel Barber 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
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury Copy Share Image
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of… — Amy Waldman 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
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of… — Michael Fassbender 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
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
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
“In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said it very eloquently: “My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of… — Ina May Gaskin 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
... 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
“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the… — Eric Scigliano Copy Share Image
“Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer… — R.C. Robertson-Glasgow Copy Share Image
The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich 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
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
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
