Competitive Antagonism

Famous quotes containing the words competitive and/or antagonism:

“How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers—to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can’t quite have it all, but that hasn’t stopped us from wanting it all for them.”
—Anne Roiphe (20th century)

“As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)