“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.” GivingProduceEmotionalNormalCynicismOutletsEquilibriumReins Book:The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries - The Complete Series Source: The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries - The Complete Series
“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.” PeopleChildrenKidsSchoolGamesToo MuchEmotionalNormalEmpathyBaseballMental HealthIncrediblesAutismSensoryAutisticStimulationBaseball GamesOverloadCafeteriaMeltdownsInformation OverloadLack Of EmpathyNo EmpathySchool Cafeteria Author:Temple Grandin
“Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'” IfsNeedsPersonsSelfHelpingDifficultSituationWatchesEmotionalFineNormalTraumaIndulgenceSelf IndulgenceEmotional Trauma Author:Lulu
“I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.” ThinkingHumansDoeMadeBrainEmotionalNormalAutismVariationAbnormal Author:Temple Grandin
“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingChildrenEnergyParentBornAbilityEmotionalDemandNormalSpringBrilliantAll TimeMiserableRight ThingVaryReservedLonerEmotional Energy Author:Stella Chess
“The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.” WritingHumansHeartTwoBookReasonPainSufferingHuman BeingsEmotionalNormalPainfulHeartacheFragileWriting A BookLoving SomeoneEmotional PainBook Writing Author:Joel Dicker
“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.” RealityLife IsObjectsEmotionalSourceBehaviorNormalOrdinaryEndlessInvisibleFamiliarManifestationVisibleFascinationUnfamiliarAbnormalOrdinary Life Author:Sandy Skoglund
“I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.” JobsGuyCuttingFieldsEmotionalEgoNormalAthleteExpertiseSusceptibleNegotiating Author:Georges St-Pierre
“America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.” NeedsAmericaLostResultsForeverEmotionalReturnBattleNormalSoldierIraqWoundsDisabledNormal LifeRehabilitationGood SoldiersBattle Wounds Author:John Olver