Carol Tavris famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
-- Carol Tavris

#Writing #Victim #Memoir
Science is a form of arrogance control.
-- Carol Tavris

#Arrogance #Form
The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'
-- Carol Tavris

#Life #Three #Sweetest
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.
-- Carol Tavris

#Crazy #Hero #Anger
Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.
-- Carol Tavris

#Sports #Baseball #Real
A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.
-- Carol Tavris

#Sports #Baseball #Team
Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.
-- Carol Tavris

#Book #Psychology #Research
When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.
-- Carol Tavris

#Food #Two #Worry
[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.
-- Carol Tavris

#Sex #Children #People
The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.
-- Carol Tavris

#America #Movement #Consciousness
When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of anger in her," people will say (it nestles, presumably, somewhere in the gut), or, "He's a deeply angry man" (as opposed, presumably, to a superficially angry one). If anger isn't released, it "turns inward" and metamorphoses into another creature altogether.
-- Carol Tavris

#Anger #Men #People
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
-- Carol Tavris

#Self #Views #People
In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.
-- Carol Tavris

#Pain #Self Worth #Feelings
In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ...
-- Carol Tavris

#Sports #Children #Law
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
-- Carol Tavris

#Self #Armor #Enough
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
-- Carol Tavris

#Teacher #Jobs #Children
Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
-- Carol Tavris

#Justice #Doubt #Enemy
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
-- Carol Tavris

#Effort #Challenges #World
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
-- Carol Tavris

#Hysteria #Panic #Moral
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant. That's why we are all inclined to stick to a hypothesis we believe in. Science is one way of forcing us, kicking and screaming if necessary, to modify our views.
-- Carol Tavris

#Believe #Views #Decision
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.
-- Carol Tavris

#Lying #Philosophical #Men

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