Quotes About Vulnerability

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

My dad told me if I was ever intimidated by anyone, just picture them with their clothes off. He said that's how he dealt with my mom.

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

Don't compare yourself to other MOMS... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

No matter who you are, how much money you make, or what kind of clothes you are wearing, CrossFit will force you to come face-to-face with your imperfections

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.

It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.