Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentm...ent they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of ...an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain deg...ree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, some ...present momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.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 »
Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishme...nts of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »