"Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth."

-- Sue Thoele

#Being Yourself Quotes #Mean Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore.”
“Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.”

Source : "Fictional character: Victoria "V.I." Warshawski". "V.I. Warshawski", www.imdb.com. 1991.
“Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr
“The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

Source : Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.175, Hachette UK
“Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.”
“Nice is the worst word.”

Source : "Shining Knightley". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 17, 2006.
“He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.”

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