Julia Ward Howe Quotes

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

I get invited to a thousand parties, but do I show up at them? No, I don't.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

We have been obliged to respond to the compulsions of our society.

I just don't get out as much as people think I do.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

I hate parties. I hate having to do things.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.