Quotes About Vulnerability

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.