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“Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'”

Easy Projects Tradition Following Vulnerable Elitist Vilify African Women

Author:Wangari Maathai

“There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.”

People Way Fronts Thousand Ten Standing Vulnerable Doing Your Best

Author:Jason Mraz

“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.”

Thinking Feels Kind Littles Self Faces Turns Bits Worst Little Bit Conscious Cameras Vulnerable Vulnerability Self Conscious

Author:Jason Mraz

“Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.”

Children Fortune Vulnerable Hostage

Author:Claire Tomalin

“It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.”

Knows I Can Important Father Products Blame Vulnerable

Author:Marita Golden

“For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.”

Soul Hard Earth Hard Work Creatures Lays Vulnerable Rejection Fascinating Approval

Author:Faith Sullivan

“War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.”

War Body Brain Vulnerable Organs Angle Not Pretty

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.”

Ifs Want Needs Two Healthy Protect Climate Climate Change Forests Destroyed Vulnerable Atmosphere Carbon Insects Drought Wildfires Outbreaks

Author:Chris Noth

“Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.”

Ifs Wells Looks Shows Eye Faces Get Up Vulnerable Ems Hunts Injured Lone Lone Wolf

Author:Bear Grylls

“I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.”

People Knows Want Happens Past Issues Vulnerable Flaws Past And Present

Author:Tim Gunn

“Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?”

Knows Genius Lovely Vulnerable Holmes Quirky

Author:Natalie Dormer

“In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.”

World Girl Roles Greater Violence Risk Expectations Aspect Gender Aids Vulnerable Exploitation Hiv Gender Roles Infection Hiv Aids

Author:Hillary Clinton

“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.”

“Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Past Faces Values Interest Can Do Share Mines Taught Goes On Humble Vulnerable Staring Mortality Splendid Crooked Juncture

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.”

Knows Feels Children Ends Fighting Father Grows Know How Growing Up One Day Lonely Our Children Vulnerable Miserable Your Children Vigilant Lonely Women

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.”

Years Long Body Poor Views Exercise Late Hungry Vulnerable Diets Regimes New Year Teens Body Image

Author:Arabella Weir

“I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.”

Believe Humor School Past Left Religious Effort Generations Positive Atheism Vulnerable Collectives Squares Sincerely Expulsion Past Generations Collective Effort

Author:Jerry Falwell

“Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.”

Social Movement Theory Behavior Models Investing Accepted Vulnerable Assets Investors Earning Incomplete Dividends Social Movements Stock Price

Author:Robert J. Shiller

“A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.”

Dying Members Treats Bases Vulnerable Judged Unborn

Author:Pope John Paul II

“ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.”

Results Iraq Vulnerable Hitting Isis Monstrosity

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.”

Way Humans Two Heaven Sky Ready Wind Sorrow Thousand Rivers Edges Heavy Vulnerable Ease Grass Coast Spiders Dew Stand Alone Falcon Gulls I Stand Alone

Author:Du Fu

“Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.”

People Communication Vulnerable

Author:A. J. McLean

“A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].”

People Giving Long Fun Scared Vulnerable Damn Appearing Uncool

Author:Steve Coogan

“If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.”

Ifs Love You Vulnerable Hunting Good Will Sonnet Angels On Earth

Author:Robin Williams

“Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.”

Thinking Should Country Mistake Authority Our Country Vulnerable Usa

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.”

Ifs Humans Stage Woods Vulnerable Disconnected

Author:Lady Gaga

“A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.”

Should Persons Long Desire Solutions Rewards Vulnerable Substitutes Instruction

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I am vulnerable; that's why I fight.”

Fighting Vulnerable

Book:My Fight / Your Fight

Source: My Fight / Your Fight

“As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.”

Needs Should Hard Felt Support Duty Disappear Vulnerable Diminish Civilised Civilised Society

Author:Justin Welby

“Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.”

People Feels Believe Heart Mean Enough Whole Moments Joy I Believe Practice Alive Listening Gratitude Grateful Terror Vulnerable Guarantees Kinder So Grateful I'm Alive

Author:Brené Brown

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.”

Heart Dark Vulnerable Vulnerability Theological Coffins Those We Love What Is Love Captivating Unbreakable Caskets

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?”

Young Felt Love Is Wonderful Middle Terrible Ridiculous Vulnerable Young Love Middle Aged Old Love

Book:Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Source: Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

“In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.”

Way Needs Interesting Powerful Environment Members Species Vulnerable Destructive Fragile

Author:Andrew Motion

“I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.”

Want Trying Play Character Strong Interesting Tvs Vulnerable

Author:Missy Peregrym

“You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said”

Feels Said Vulnerable

Author:Alan Pardew

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

Heart Heaven Love Is Hell Danger Broken Safe Vulnerable Captivating

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.”

Mean Action Wall Internet Connected Vulnerable Mechanism Secrecy

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?”

Way Needs Order Masters Machines Connected Vulnerable Useless Rely Plastic Slabs

Book:The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

Source: The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

“We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.”

Mean Fashion Treats Corruption Vulnerable Destructive Holocaust Refugee Predecessors Defenseless

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.”

Country Problem Bigs Easy Sports Lines Industry Credit Vulnerable Gambling Target Other Countries Footballer Syndicate

Author:Gordon Taylor

“Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.”

Children Levels Dues Factors Vulnerable Immigrants Consistently Disadvantages Fragility

Author:Irwin Redlener

“I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.”

Soul Character Strong Enjoy Female Complexes Vulnerable Strong Female Complex Characters

Author:Ruth Wilson

“The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.”

People Way Humour Reputation Vulnerable Superficial Revealing Banter

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.”

Speak Dying Policy Harder Medicine Population Vulnerable Fashionable Public Policy

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.”

People Ideas Helping Moving Millions Plans Share Dollars Vulnerable Million Dollars Infancy

Author:Sara Blakely

“There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.”

Knows Reactions Vulnerable

Author:Noah Baumbach

“If I didn't like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don't realize it. That is scary to me.”

People Ifs Jobs Found Lost Realizing Like You Degrees Scary Vulnerable Online Our Relationship Lost You

Author:Mark Cuban

“Treat other people the way you want to be treated. Most people won't do that because it makes them vulnerable.”

People Way Want Treats Treated Vulnerable

Author:Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

“Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.”

Looks Strong Struggle Sacrifice Huge Endure Disappointment Vulnerable Strong Women Admirable Being A Woman

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.”

Kind Able Dark Tough Accomplish Vulnerable Sense Of Humor Nails Freeze Amazing Things Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Robin Williams

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