"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history……" — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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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… — Tony Campolo
• Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought… — David Seabury
• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:… — Adrienne Rich
• The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows… — Paul de Man
• Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the… — Judith Levine
• History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill… — Winston Churchill
• It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich
• Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the… — Luce Irigaray
• Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set… — Erma Bombeck
• Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space… — Joan Mitchell
• It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this… — John Scott
• More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau

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