Quotes About Vulnerability

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

I don't know how women will feel safe.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

There are certain things men will never understand about women. We'll never get it. And you're supposed to be nice to them. Because they can hurt you.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes