Quotes About Social dynamics

I would handle the deep intellectual matters, like vibrators; she would handle the social sphere.

What about the check? Suze said. Pay it, he called back. This is your party. I don't like him, Suze said to Margie. Margie slid out of the booth. Think of him as a growth experience. Oh, good, I've been wanting one of those, Suze said and tossed a twenty on the table. It was too much, but she was in a hurry to steal a dog.

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

For the love of Betsy, who talks like that? No wonder we were at the loser table.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal laws, federal rules or, clearly, by a president.

I think if I'm with a friend group, I try to be as funny as possible, and I don't always succeed, obviously.

Dogs have the same ability and the same social skills to avoid conflicts as wolves have.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

The plant-man said, 'I've observed that when a human is dealing with another, he's usually logical only if he's advancing his self-interests or has a desire to hurt or put down the other. Is this one of those situations?

In American history, racism has not been a constant but a variable which came, went and came again.

Deference also had a reciprocal posture called condescension—a word which has radically changed its meaning

Vanda (as Dunayev): In our society, a woman's only power is through men. Her character is her lack of character. She's a blank, to be filled in my creatures who at heart despise her. I want to see what Woman will be when she ceases to be man's slave. When she has the same rights as he, when she's his equal in education and his partner in work. When she becomes herself. An individual.

And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way. Some of us applaud. Others look away, because it hurts too much.

Algunas personas simplemente están hechas para tener muchos, muchos amigos y no muchas, muchas citas.

Because the reproductive stakes are higher for men than for women, more men than women risk being shut out of mating entirely. Men who are mateless for life are more numerous than similarly mateless women in every society.

Hey! 'Hey!' But there was no name to put on the end of Hey and a six foot two black man shouting Hey in a dense crowd does not create easiness wherever he goes.

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.