Quotes About Boundaries

I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.

There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

In life, I have male friends. They're just friends, and there's nothing going on, and it's beautiful.

All divisions are man-made.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

We care about margins.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.

Married men don't do that. We don't talk about women.

You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.

Along the borders of this world lie others. There are places you can cross. This is one such place.

wall of yew twice

The boundaries that divide these worlds help define within each of them radically different ways of perceiving what it is possible to be or to become, of perceiving what it is possible to aspire to or not.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors.

I will read," she said. "But I don't want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. 'I entered her.' 'He entered me.' We're not lobbies or elevators. 'I wanted him inside me,' as if he could crawl completely in, sign the register, sleep, eat, so forth. Can we agree on that? I don't care what these people do as long as they don't enter or get entered.

Don't take anything personally

Nothing other people do is because of you.

So we push the boundaries: we stay up far longer than is natural. We try to do too many tasks at the same time. We drive faster than is safe. Most of the time we manage okay. We might even be rewarded and praised for our heroic efforts. But when things go wrong and we fail, then this same behavior is blamed and punished.

Love, which is a kind of permission to come closer than ordinary norms of good behavior might usually sanction. - Back rubs. - Which enables us to see each other without clothes on, for example, in lust and shame. - Examining perfections, imperfections. - Which allows us to say wounding things to each other which would not be kosher under the ordinary rules of civilized discourse.