Susan Lieberman Quotes

Everybody needs somebody.

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

I've realised how important having family is.

My home is not a place, it is people.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

Social support is everything.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.