“I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 66 of 73
“I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.”
“I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.”
“Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.”
“My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.”
“My biggest faults is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?”
“My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.”
“I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.”
“I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!”
“I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10”
“I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.”
“That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.”
“It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.”
“I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded”
“Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.”
“I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.”
“... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.”
“I am not the kind of person I want to be.”
“I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.”
“I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'”