Quotes About Vulnerability

Still, children seem like empty vessels who pick up on everything and are so affected by their surroundings. I mean, that's what they tell me in therapy and it seems to be true. Stuff I don't consciously remember affects my behavior every day. I see that now

There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can.

And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it? So my challenge is to be authentic.

It seems like there is something about sharing your insides with the world that gives other people strength and hope and helps them not to feel so alone.

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone—even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way—no one can. That's why I have no references. But, of course, there's always the hope that my new employer won't check them out.

Frieda felt that her heart was like some old chest that had been heaved up from the seabed, its barnacled lid prized open after all this time. Who knew what treasures she would find inside?

He has to lie,' said Karen. 'He always lied. I hope he hasn't hurt you.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Soms vermomden ze zich als vrienden, dan deden ze aardig en gezellig en lieten ze je geloven dat je een van hen was en dan liet jij, stom rund, je verdediging varen en dan braken ze je hart door je te vernachelen. Vervolgens gooiden ze je weg als een kapot stuk speelgoed.

Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Maria mi si è sdraiata accanto. - Ho paura. - Loro hanno paura. - Perchè? - Perchè urlano.

He started touching me. 'How old are you?' He ran his hands over my nose, my mouth, my eyes. I was paralysed. 'Nine. What about you?' 'Nine.' 'When's your birthday?' 'The twelfth of September. And yours?' 'The Twentieth of November.' 'What's your name?' 'Michele. Michele Amitrano. What year are you in at school?' 'The fourth. What about you?' 'The fourth.' 'Same.' 'Same' 'I'm thirsty.' I gave him the bottle

Devi avere paura degli uomini, non dei mostri.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

Closing the schools can harm children who are neglected or unsafe at home and who benefit from the caring eyes of a teacher.

His ships might arrive in time to save the day, or they might arrive in time to be destroyed in their turn.

One night he had shared his quarters with a wounded drummer boy, protecting the child from cold.

Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.

There are 2-3 millions prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are paid, a significant share of them entered the sex industry unwillingly.

BY EVEN A CONSERVATIVE COUNT, there are more than half a million homeless people in America at any one time, including nearly two hundred thousand living on the streets rather than in shelters. Homelessness has increased in the last forty years even as America has become much wealthier, because of a confluence of factors. After World

four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking