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 ta...lked 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 home and raise our grandchildren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents do not give up their children to strangers lightly. They wait in uncertain anticipation for an expression of awareness and... interest in their children that is as genuine as their own. They are subject to ambivalent feelings of trust and competitiveness toward a teacher their child loves and to feelings of resentment and anger when their child suffers at her hands. They place high hopes in their children and struggle with themselves to cope with their children's failures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its ...children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The responsibilities of parenthood take on a more subtle cast during the middle years. . . . Our child is becoming a more consciou...s partner in his or her growth. . . . Each time our children take a new step, each time we allow them to move ahead to try something they've never tried before, we go through a period of doubt and questioning and ambivalent feelings until the new skill is mastered or the new rules are established. It is one of the most common experiences of parenthood, and it is also one of the most challenging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All parents occasionally have ambivalent feelings toward their children. We love our kids, but there are times when we don't reall...y like them, or at least we can't stand what our children are doing. But most of us keep those feelings to ourselves, as if it's dirty little secret. It doesn't fit in with our images of what we should do and feel as parents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalen...t, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us were ambivalent, but we don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right.... Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. We... are sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were the ...occasion for both their pain and their power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoveri...sh it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »