--- title: "7 Alienating People Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Alienating People quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Alienating People sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/nellie-mckay-11745_go_i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating_1002021.png" --- > [I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-mckay/i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating-people-but-i-have-no-idea/) [Nellie McKay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nellie-mckay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/nellie-mckay-11745_go_i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating_1002021.png) > [I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idina-menzel/i-think-as-women-the-smarter-and-more-powerful-we-are-the-more-it-can/) [Idina Menzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idina-menzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/idina-menzel-4279_each_i-think-as-women-the-smarter-and-more-po_1158337.jpg) > [I didn't realise how much I was alienating people. I would constantly refuse to go out when friends would call. At one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ileana-d-cruz/i-didn-t-realise-how-much-i-was-alienating-people-i-would-constantly/) [Ileana D'Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ileana-d-cruz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/ileana-d-cruz-6361_friends_i-didn-t-realise-how-much-i-was-alienati_1279543.jpg) > [“However, I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allie-brosh/however-i-could-no-longer-rely-on-genuine-emotion-to-generate-facial/) [Allie Brosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allie-brosh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5eb/allie-brosh-12906_social-interaction_however-i-could-no-longer-rely-on-genuin_2205876.jpg) > [“As for the danger of alienating people with good intentions — well, one of the things that I learned from RaceFail (and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-k-jemisin/as-for-the-danger-of-alienating-people-with-good-intentions-well-one/) [N.K. Jemisin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-k-jemisin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/869/n-k-jemisin-1466_good-intentions_as-for-the-danger-of-alienating-people-w_2265539.jpg) > [That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-lynch/that-weird-dark-energy-when-i-was-a-kid-i-didn-t-know-what-it-was-i/) [Jane Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-lynch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/jane-lynch-2872_dark-energy_that-weird-dark-energy-when-i-was-a-kid_2539953.jpg) > [We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-leigh/we-should-be-in-the-business-of-protecting-cherished-institutions-and/) [Edward Leigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-leigh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e21/edward-leigh-50479_asks_we-should-be-in-the-business-of-protecti_3140648.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alienating-people/#itemlist", "name": "Alienating People Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nellie McKay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nellie-mckay/i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating-people-but-i-have-no-idea/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/nellie-mckay-11745_go_i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating_1002021.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/nellie-mckay-11745_go_i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating_1002021.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/nellie-mckay-11745_go_i-thought-i-had-a-talent-for-alienating_1002021.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.” — Nellie McKay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. 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The overt racists are easy to deal with. You can spot them coming a mile away. But the well-intentioned people are scarier. They might not intend harm, but in most cases they haven’t thought about all the racist (and other “-ist”) messages they’ve absorbed from society. They haven’t done the basic groundwork necessary to purge themselves of that passively-absorbed “-ism”. So they say the most incredibly hurtful, self-absorbed, and utterly useless things, then compound the problem by getting upset when they’re called on it. I liken these people to sleeper agents — they seem OK at first, but then they suddenly “activate” and stab you in the back, and then they come out of their fugue and freak because there’s blood on their hands and they don’t know how it got there and they refuse to accept that they’re the ones who put it there, OMG, OMG. Meanwhile, you’re on the floor bleeding out, unnoticed because of their histrionics. The rage of RaceFail made many of these well-intentioned sleeper agents wake up. So while yes, I think the anger risked alienating some of them, I’m fine with that. They were always dangerous; I haven’t lost anything by their alienation. The ones who wake up are a gain (or they will be, once they shift from “not causing harm” anymore to “actually trying to help”).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "N.K. 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