Luciana Berger Quotes

The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

I receive many death threats. I used to love walking around New York City alone, but I can't do that anymore.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

Bullies are just frightened people.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

I think I need security.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

I spent much of my life hiding.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me.