Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Interpretation
Pride can be both empowering and harmful, influencing our emotions and actions in complex ways.
Adrienne Rich's quote suggests that pride is a complex emotion that can elevate us and instill a sense of glory, but it also has the potential to lead to negative consequences if mismanaged. Recognizing pride as a 'double-edged' feeling indicates that while it can motivate and inspire, it can also cloud judgment and create obstacles in relationships and self-perception.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Adrienne Rich notes, pride can be a tricky emotion that we must navigate carefully.'
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'β
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is childβs play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
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