Quotes About Vulnerability

For so much of my life, I lived feeling as if, if I spoke, if I said something, I would lose everything. I would be pushed out. No one will want me. No one will love me. No one would want to be friends with me. It took me decades to get to a space of saying, 'This is my truth. This is who I am, and I don't care if you like me or you don't like me.'

I have nothing to hide. So when I spoke about my lip job, a lot of people called me brave for coming out.

I never spoke out as a kid, I was never good at it as a kid, I was always too shy but I think I have a story and would like to be good at it and tell my story.

We've spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, 'Look, if you were doing a movie musical, and we could pre-record and lip-synch, sure. But live? So if we hit a bad note it's there for posterity? We're not going to go out there without a safety net.' People are scared to death of that.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi!

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.