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" We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. "

Claire Messud

Think

Anger

Culture

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" If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy. "

" The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?' "

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" Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. "

" President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. "

" I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down. "

" I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well. "

" I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed. "

" The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. "

" I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever. "

" It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old. "

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Anger

" Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention. "

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Depression

" It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say. "

" Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. "

" I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through. "

" My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. "

" Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker. "

" Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. "

" My husband had a stalker, briefly. "

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Husband

Had

" It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc. "

" My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later. "

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Weapon

Used

" I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings. "

" Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line. "

" Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me? "

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People

" Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react. "

" I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. "

" Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest. "

" For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular. "

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Reading

Waste