Social Vulnerability Quotes

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

Blacks—across the economic and ideological spectrum—often feel astonishingly vulnerable, of accusations of disloyalty to race.

When I heard about the Windrush issue, I thought, 'That could be my mum... it could be my dad... it could be my uncle... it could be me.'

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.

I lived in a homeless shelter. That's what I mean when I say I've been in situations where people need help. I don't remember my exact age, but I remember there were two bunk beds and five of us in there: me, my three sisters and my mum.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

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.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

If you want to know what being Canadian is, it's being part of the human race, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, which has been scared off, warded away, girded against.

Disadvantaged communities are among the most vulnerable to climate change.

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.