Psychology Quote by Nora Roberts

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

— Kris Kidd

“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 an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive…

— Camille Paglia

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

“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

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

— John Steinbeck

“Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression”

— Brandi Lynn Ryder

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will…

— Michel Foucault

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being.…

— Harry Belafonte

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox