Quotes About Vulnerability

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.

How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs, she said to Ursula.

but how could you spoil a child—by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you.

No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

Man is always exploited through fear.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.