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Quotes About Internalized

We often overestimate the degree to which exploitative behavior has been normalized and the degree to which we've internalized these norms. It takes, then, a commitment to an acutely self-conscious practice to be able to think and behave better than we've been taught.
~ bell hooks
Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well.
~ Susan Forward
Obviously I probably have internalized fatphobia about myself and what the world has ingrained in us.
~ Tess Holliday
Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
~ Andrew Sullivan
My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
~ Elise Broach
of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your "place") becomes a passport to acceptance by the dominant group. Sometime fundamentalist women perpetrate crimes against their daughters by training them to act subservient to
~ Frank Schaeffer
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.
~ Tony Judt
Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims, at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self, to embrace the values of their oppressors.
~ H. Jack Geiger
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
~ Siri Hustvedt
It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'
~ Geoffrey Rush
Unless we are read as Muslim or trans, Asian Americans are fortunate not to live under hard surveillance, but we live under a softer panopticon, so subtle that it's internalized, in that we monitor ourselves, which characterizes our conditional existence.
~ Cathy Park Hong
The truth was that I had internalized society's unserious estimate of all that was female - including myself.
~ Gloria Steinem
The attentive, caring, and wise voice ofa supportive adult gets internalized and becomes part of the youth's own voice. —National Research Council
~ Goldie Hawn
Trying to maintain a 'strong, pervasive, powerfully internalised' religious conviction in a world that can manage without religious explanations creates perpetual tensions, however. The
~ Nick Cohen
This is a very important kind of step, to think about the fact that much of behavior is rule-bound, and this is what Giddens is thinking about when he says that practical consciousness works for most everyday situations, but there are circumstances in which we begin to become aware that we have internalized a whole number of rule-governed behaviors (1984).
~ Noam Chomsky
The child's experience of the mother is internalized as a complex; an emotionally charged cluster of energy beyond the control of the ego.
~ James Hollis
To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
~ Mona Eltahawy
Let me tell you what really happened, the voice said. All those years you waited torpidly, like a sleepwalker, pulled and pushed about by others' opinions, by external pressure, by your illusions, by the official rules you internalized. You were misled by your own frustration and passivity, believing that what you were not allowed to have was what your heart was destined to embrace.
~ Ha Jin
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.
~ Robert F. Engle
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
~ Ally Condie, Crossed
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.
~ Matt Apuzzo
A person acts according to the knowledge internalized in his heart.
~ Unknown