emotional labeling Quotes

Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

Some kids get called "bundles of joy" or "slices of heaven" or "dreams come true." We got "the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments." Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?

I was told by the world for a long time that I was angry, or that I was sad.

From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.

The minute we have a pain, we want a diagnosis. So I think the minute we feel love, it's very hard to just let it be. We want to identify it, we want to catalog it, we want to keep the thing and create the environment it happened in. That's where marriage comes from! Let's make an institution out of it!