Quotes About Judgment

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the word "teeny-weeny.

Tess and Felicity sat on the sidelines of life smirking at the players.

Although, of course, a fat man isn't nearly as pathetic as a fat woman. Her

What's your husband in for? Oh, bank robbery? Really? Mine's in for murder. Yep, strangled a girl. Off to the gym after this, are you?

Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

You never changed your appearance for men, you changed it for other women, because they were the ones carefully tracking each other's weight and skin tone, along with their own, they were the ones trapped with you on the ridiculous appearance obsession merry-go-round that they couldn't or wouldn't get off.

Smiley-face tattoos. How drunk must he have been? It kind of changed her entire view of the man. No longer the arrogant sneering man. He was Tony. Tony with smiley-face tattoos on his butt.

Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict. Just not normally on this sort of scale.

Hank didn't know that Lyn had no right to feel anxious when everyone knew her life was so wonderful, while Cat's was falling to pieces and Gemma couldn't seem to make one.

Madeline," said Nathan, "don't yell at her, will you? Because—" "Are you kidding? Of course I'm going to yell at her!" yelled Madeline. "She's selling her virginity on the Internet!

Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer.

before realizing that everyone would have a turn choosing a book, and so she'd probably end up having to wade through some awful, worthy tomes.

You never changed your appearance for men, you changed it for other women,

He owned an apricot polo shirt, and ironed it himself. Yes, he was probably gay.

I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful," continued Jane. "But it's like it's the most shameful thing for a woman to be.

Samantha: That Harper is so up herself. Of course it could have happened at a private school. And Abigail's intentions were so noble! It's just that fourteen-year-old girls are stupid. Poor Madeline. She blamed Nathan and Bonnie, although I don't know if that was fair.

No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.

Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve.

Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn't relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly conversations about husbands who weren't "stepping up" and renovations that weren't finished before the baby was born and that hilarious time they were so busy and tired they left the house without putting on any makeup! (Jane, who was wearing no makeup at the time, and never wore makeup, had kept her face blank and benign, while she inwardly shouted: What the fuck?)

Nowadays we label children too quickly as bullying, when in fact they can only behave like children.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.