Quotes About Dependency

When I visited the ambassador from Grenada, she summed up the dynamic with a phrase I had heard often, 'If America sneezes, people in my country catch a cold' (p. 402).

Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

The system that supports you can also be used to control you

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

Parents are always precious. But when you have only one, they become crucial. The Rest of the Story

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete - like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

It was as if I was attached to her with a tether, her every movement yanking at me, my own hands reaching to shield her from the dangers of her waving arms.

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.

You take too many pills of every kind—first stimulants and then depressants, anodynes followed by analeptics, until the poor organism doesn't know what's happened.

Unrequited love. Nowadays called hysterical dependency.

if you must be pitiable, sue for aid and succor, you will put yourself always, inevitably, in the hands of these angry spirits. Blasting you with their "truth.

Slavery has never really been abolished. More people are enslaved to different things than you can shake a stick at.

And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.

It could be said that the dishes used human beings in a symbiotic relationship, convincing us through their usefulness to make new dishes.

Never have them, Reg. I swear, you're never free. You LOVE them too much. It's like a vital organ walked out of your body and is out there waving hi to people and you fear for it all day, EVERY day, because if something happened to it...

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses." Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

Ireland is never unanimous but on one thing -- getting something from the Imperial Exchequer.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.