Quotes About Compartmentalization

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible, that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child." (2003, p. 26)

That was the funny thing about my feelings for Ben - in most ways, they had nothing to do with Daniel. My feelings for them seemed like two entirely separate but necessary chambers of my heart.

For the novelist, knowledge is not subdivided into rigidly demarcated compartments, and there are no taboos, no 'disreputable' subjects.

The greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to break apart and compartmentalise. It's how we juggle multiple demands, and how we cope with pain and trauma.

And men always seem to have a more difficult time compartmentalizing at these times than women, I've found. Women are stronger because they have to be.