“Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.” NeedsHeartLittlesI CanMy OwnCasesBrokenAreasSafetyRetreatHeart Broke Author:Suzi Quatro
“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.” IdeasSometimesHelpingHomeFormForceLosesMy OwnLossGriefWonderBreakGraceSubjectsStrangeSurvivalOrdinarySafetyDeeperDisappearFamiliarOpeningGrantedGrievingRoutineContinuingSheerManhattanStrangenessUnderworldBarbershop Author:Mark Doty
“I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.” PeopleWorldTryingSocialMy OwnCreatingSafetyDemocratSettingSettingsAround The WorldWelfareVery PositiveSafety Net Author:Eddie Izzard
“To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.” WorldChildrenSchoolValuesParentChurchMy OwnCatholicSafetyInstitutionsDecentHave FaithCatholic SchoolGood In The World Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.” StillsIdeasWantedSchoolJobsRememberArtistMy OwnTeachingNew YorkSafetyCushionsGradGrad School Author:Brice Marden