Quotes About Vulnerability

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

I'm really loving and open at the same time.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

You don't have to be strong all the time, Xena. Sometimes it's good for the soul to be soft.

Have you ever considered that there isn't a safe time to be around you?

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.