Quotes About Vulnerability

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.