vulnerable quotes

[She] has several skins fewer than any other human being†a kind of psychological haemophilia, which is one reason why she writes so well, and why she is so vulnerable.

- Charles Curran
Of his friend and fellow journalist, Rebecca West. Quoted by V S Pritchett in the NewYorker, 21 Dec1987.

Jazz musicians are not demigods. Theyare warm, vulnerablehumanbeings with a desperateneedtogo on paying the rent.

- Bruce Turner
  Hot Air, Cool Music, ch.10.