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"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."
"The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd."
"Being petty allows you to make mountains out of molehills."
"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."
"People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why."
"Gestures and the Signals They Send Rubbing your face, palms, and neck may signify anxiety and stress. Arms crossed with clenched fists may signify hostility, anger, and impatience. Arms crossed with each hand gripping other arm may signify insecurity and self-doubt. Arms crossed with thumbs up may signify interest and engagement. Or my favorite-arms crossed may signify that you are simply cold! Fidgeting and squirming may signify that you are lying, afraid of being found out, insecure, or uncomfortable. Standing with your hands behind your back may signify power and superiority."
"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."
"Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve."
"Consider how others may feel about you before, during, and after talking. Are you projecting an attitude that results in others feeling accepted and welcome? Are you encouraging people to speak and engage with you through your approachability?"
Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
"She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four."
"Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."
"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
"Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean."
"On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist."
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