Protectiveness Quotes:

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.396, Open Road Media

topic: Protective, Protectiveness

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

- Lena Headey

topic: Dark, Losing Someone, Brain, Protectiveness

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Women, Occupation, May, Misogyny, Protectiveness

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Doors, Justice, Sound, Protectiveness

A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

- Margaret Haddix

source: Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Hurt, Fear, Question Mark, Protectiveness

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1022, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Two, Judging, Steps, Protectiveness

If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and those themes of isolation, protectiveness, loneliness tend to resonate with other people in major cities. In a sleepier village, where people are married with their children, me standing up and saying, "This marriage idea is a funny old convention that we invented" - various things that are deconstructions of the norms of a culture - if people have already made decisions like that, they're more inclined to say "Please, stop talking about our marriages, 'cause we're here now."

- Simon Amstell

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Children, Loneliness, People, Protectiveness

I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very destructive to anarchism. If you are absorbed by that commodity world then you're not going to move toward any radical positions, you're going to move toward a stance of protectiveness.

- Murray Bookchin

source: Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

topic: Believe, Moving, Thinking, Protectiveness, Stance

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

- Felicity Kendal

topic: Mother, Father, Jealous, Protectiveness, Get Jealous

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

topic: Running, Baby, Gratitude, Protectiveness

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Fighting, Looks, Fierce, Protectiveness

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

- Robert Crais

topic: Loyalty, Dog, Military, Protectiveness

What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.47, Vintage

topic: Men, Males, Female, Protectiveness, Victimization

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: Moving, Reality, Serenity, Protectiveness, Untouchables

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

topic: Peace, Children, Differences, Parent Child Relationship, Protectiveness

Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

- Margaret Haddix

source: Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Pain, Father, Protectiveness

I know you love her. I’ve never seen you act this crazed in your life. I get that. But Nan hates her. If you love Blaire then protect her from the venom that is dripping from your sister’s fangs. Or I will.

- Abbi Glines

source: Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hate, Nans, Dripping, Venom, Protectiveness

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.168, Macmillan

topic: Revenge, Kindness, Pride, Protectiveness

I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.

- Abbi Glines

source: Abbi Glines (2014). “Forever Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tables, Way, Underestimate, Protectiveness