Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

Nothing is sooner dry than a woman's tears.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.

If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake.

What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to break. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.

Lower your guard to let happiness in.

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.