Quotes About Vulnerability

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

... there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson

Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.