Competitive Antagonism

Famous quotes containing the words competitive and/or antagonism:

“Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (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)