“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.” PeopleThinkingHardFeltRoomsFictionConflictConfusionJournalismContradictionInternalsCaptureAmbivalenceInternal Conflict Author:Amy Waldman
“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.” IfsMenMindLittlesMatterHelpingBodyTodayYoungCertainSexNaturalWhiteClassFeminismMiddleTaughtHugeConflictFemaleInstinctFeministSexualityArtisticMiddle ClassAgendasGapsAmbitiousRhetoricYoung WomenDocumentsAmbivalenceFemale SexualityNatural InstinctLittle Help Author:Camille Paglia
“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. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.” IfsWantFeelingsOne ThingConflictAriseClarityWant SomethingAmbivalenceAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.” WorldDoneChoicesPleasureStruggleIdentitySourceConflictSurvivalMajorityMotherhoodIntegrationAmbivalence Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools
“Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.” PeopleWorldHumansConflictSimplicityVulnerableCertaintyEaseDiscussionFearfulRhetoricFundamentalistParametersAmbivalence Author:Dana Spiotta
“Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.” KnowsStatesFeelingsModernConflictModern ScienceThoughts And FeelingsCollisionAmbivalence Author:David Seabury