Quotes About Vulnerability

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

I ain't afraid to love a man.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.