Quotes About Vulnerability

I wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance.

You show your teeth more when you show what you're made of and your heart.

I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me.

The very first night on 'The Bachelor,' my first season, I remember standing in the rose ceremony room. It's 4:30 in the morning at this point. It's freezing cold, everyone is cold and nervous standing on these risers, and you could hear the teeth chattering and the deep breaths.

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

I used to be insecure and cover my mouth because I felt like my teeth were too big or I was embarrassed that I might say something stupid.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That's what we have lived. It's easier to tell a poor person, 'You know what, you are poor, you're hungry because the other one has taken away your rights.'

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.

It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.