Quotes About Boundaries

You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.

All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she'd taken on the world's hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.

A family is no place for privacy!

you think that your pushing me so hard for something you wanted made me kind of necessarily resist it? Would you admit that, would you say that you pushed way too hard?

There is only so much discordance to which anyone can listen before the notes become unbearable and they tune it out.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.

people's judgments about you are none of your business.

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

people's judgements about you are none of your business

repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good—perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection.

Nor did it occur to me that I couldn't keep a showgirl in my bedroom as a pet, just because I felt like it.

One does not wish to lose the fondness of people one admires by revealing too much of oneself.

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

nature, in her limitlessness, has no concern for the boundaries of our mortal imaginations.

I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from our realities as possible, and that sometimes it can take years of effort to reach such a point of sober discernment.

But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time—everything.

Any place that one could not leave was not large—particularly if one was a naturalist!

Defiende tus limitaciones y las harás tuyas