Adaptation Quote by Camille Paglia

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult…

— Graham Joyce

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness…

— Michael Leunig

“If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in some distinctly…

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.”

— Kris Kidd

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard…

— Francis Levy

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his…

— Joseph Sandler

“Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression”

— Brandi Lynn Ryder

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted…

— Sigmund Freud