Quotes About Safety

Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

on Gerda Lerner] As for stepping outside of patriarchal thought: "Being skeptical toward every known system of thought: being critical of all assumptions, ordering values and definitions . . . , developing intellectual courage, . . . the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all - that of intellectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

It is the fundamental unfairness of parenthood that if we do our jobs well, the deepest bond we are given will walk out the door with a wave over the shoulder. We get good training along the way. We learn to say "Have a great time, sweetie" while we are longing to pull them back to safety. And against all the evolutionary imperatives of protecting our gene pool, we give them car keys. And freedom. It's our job. And I wanted to be a good mother.

He shook his head again. 'I just can't figure out why anyone in his right head would bother these Virgin River women.' 'Yeah. Makes no sense.' Jack said.

She automatically shifted her stance sideways, making herself less of a target, as she approached the front of the worn-looking convenience store.

She tucked closer to the wall making herself less of a target.

No one is going to abduct me, Rae. That's what all abductees say.

You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things. Because she doesn't worry about me.

Psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health workers in hospitals had an assault rate of 60 percent, six times higher than other healthcare professionals.

Bootleg miners did what's called robbing back, working the mine the wrong way, back to front, chipping away the coal pillars that were left to support the mine roof. They took out the pillars, collapsing the mines. It made it impossible to stop the fire when the government filled the shafts with fly ash in the seventies, and again in the eighties." Cate

Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and

Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

Are we not at least partially responsible for keeping ourselves safe, for lowering the risks in our lives?" he asks. "Locking doors, staying vigilant on the street? No one has a right to hurt us, even in a careless moment. But we have some—some—control over our level of risk." "What are we talking about here?

Sometimes a stranger was the safest place in your life.

Cricket felt that her spiritual home might be Neiman Marcus. She was far from the kind of place that made her feel comfortable—someplace gleaming and clean with lovely, expensive goods for sale. People were so into "nature," weren't they? Getting into it, back to it. Why? Nature just seemed spooky and unsafe to Cricket. There was that whole no-one-can-hear-you-screaming vibe. They hadn't seen another car for ages. Ages.

Jonas: 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.' ...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.

It was one more time, Annemarie realized, when they protected one another by not telling.

We really have to protect people from wrong choices." "It's safer.

I was so afraid for you, I forgot to be afraid for your enemies. I should have remembered. Dear Captain.

They embraced each other so tightly, they had to back off to manage a kiss. "Don't you ever," he said, voice husky with strain, "pull a stunt like that again." "Don't you ever let it become necessary, again." "Deal." He held her face away from his, between his hands, his eyes devouring her. "I was so afraid for you, I forgot to be afraid for your enemies. I should have remembered. Dear Captain.

If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.

It was wonderful to imagine letting go one's guard, if only for a moment. To pretend that safety was something another could give as a gift.