Alice S. Rossi Quotes
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
Quotes to Explore
-
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
-
I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
-
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
-
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
-
I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
-
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
-
I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
-
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
-
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
-
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
-
Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
-
I'm evangelical.
-
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
-
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
-
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
-
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
-
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
-
It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
-
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
-
I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.
-
Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?
-
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
