Quotes about Vulnerability

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

I once had a 'best friend' share private stories that I had told her in confidence to another mutual friend. I think the worst part, aside from the actual betrayal of trust, is that this experience affected my future relationships, as I was hesitant to be as open with my other friends.

I'm incredibly naive.

Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves

There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It

The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their young.