Quotes About Dependency

These children spend so much time demanding the status of adulthood from you - even when it isn't in your power to bestow it - and then when the real shit hits the fan, when you need them to be adults, suddenly they're children again.

What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh

A feminist who had always been supported by men—first my father and now the Noted Activist—and who, though she continually harangued me about the "nobility of labor," had never, as far as I knew, actually been gainfully employed.

saw all my years at once, but they were not piled up on each other, experience after experience, building into something of substance—the opposite. A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow.

One strong man and one weak is a colony, Sapper Jones," said Samad.

De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

No addiction is good.

I've always had an addictive nature.

Social media can be so addictive.

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

I've got an addictive personality.

Technology can create needs even as it addresses them.

I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

When you don't have money, you fall under the influence of anybody who has the appearance of having it.

I am an approval junkie.

When his opponent, after careful conversation, avowed the secret of his own purposes, confident that he had secured his listener's assent, Grandet answered: "I can decide nothing without consulting my wife." His wife, whom he had reduced to a state of helpless slavery, was a useful screen to him in business.

While the daughter of a helpless father develops a hypercompetent physical self-reliance that encourages her to take responsibility for those around her, the daughter of a distant father becomes more emotionally independent. As an adult, she's wary of depending on others; feeling physically abandoned by one parent and emotionally abandoned by the other, she selects only a handful of people to whom she'll get close.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.

The individual is a cell in the social superorganism. When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group, he, too, begins to wither away. As

Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use.

Taking drugs to control a drug addiction is like swallowing a spider to catch a fly.)

Harry and Tyrone were holding out a little more on each other each day. If one guy somehow got caught short and his nose and eyes were running and his body shivering as they scuffled and hustled the street trying to cop, and asked the other one to give him a taste, the guy swore up and down he had nothing, that he had just done in his cottons, and he would start shaking, trying to fake his friend out.