Nancy O'Dell Quotes

I'm a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy feeling vulnerable, so I think my loved ones and my family make me feel vulnerable. Also, being connected with people when I'm working is a very vulnerable place to be.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.

I tell my mum everything. Even things she doesn't want to know.

When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life... you feel kind of vulnerable.

I don't like opening up in front of everyone.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

Someone that is not close with their family is an immediate deal breaker for me.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

My son always makes me feel vulnerable.