Nancy Chodorow quotes

Nancy Chodorow quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.”
-- Nancy Chodorow

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“Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.”
-- Nancy Chodorow

Source : Nancy Chodorow (1978). “The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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“Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no casual relation to anything we did to begin with.”
-- Nancy Chodorow

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“The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother”
-- Nancy Chodorow

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“A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.”
-- Nancy Chodorow

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“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014
“Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior”
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
“What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.”
“Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.”
“You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.”

Source : "PBS' Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.keyesarchives.com. December 20, 1999.
“We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now”
“I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist â€¦ Well, a show-off anyway.”

Source : "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.
“Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed”
“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

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