Being ambivalent doesn’t mean
Being ambivalent doesn’t mean that you’re a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex. Etgar Keret
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Being ambivalent doesn’t mean that you’re a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex. Etgar Keret
I’m real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women’s movement for a long time know that we’ve talked a good game of go out and fulfill your dreams and be everything you were meant to be. But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay … Read more
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we’re ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. Erica Jong
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy – cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority. Eric Fischl
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about. Emily Browning
I’d rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of ‘entertaining’ film that everyone feels ambivalent about. Emily Browning
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring. Ellen Goodman
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, … We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn’t feel that it detracts from our femininity. Elizabeth Wurtzel
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. Elia Kazan
If I’ve been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that’s the way I find life. Edward Albee