"We don't do ambivalence well in America. We……" — Anna Quindlen
"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."
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171 Quotes by Anna Quindlen
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never…
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents…
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with…
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the…
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill…
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the…
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set…
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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space…
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this…
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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