Clingy Quotes

• My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Kids, Eight

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

  Anne Lamott

  Broken, Scared, Screwed Up

  "'Every single thing I know, as of today': Author Anne Lamott shares life wisdom in viral Facebook post" by Erin Clements, www.today.com. April 10, 2015.

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• That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

  Alanis Morissette

  Would Be, Overwhelmed, Numb

  Song: That I Would Be Good, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

  Ashley Greene

  Hurt, Independent, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.

  Taylor Swift

  Girlfriend, Kids, Writing

  "Cover Preview: Taylor Swift Fights Back About Her Love Life, the Hyannis Port House—and Has Words for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler". www.vanityfair.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, People, Broken

  "'Every single thing I know, as of today': Author Anne Lamott shares life wisdom in viral Facebook post" by Erin Clements, www.today.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Writing, Sisterhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight

  Jennifer Crusie

  Hate, Crazy, People

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• Are you a peice of Saran Wrap? No Well then why are you acting so clingy?

  Lisi Harrison

  Acting, Wells, Wraps

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• As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

  Michelle Malkin

  Persistence, Media, President

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• Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

  Camille Paglia

  Vegetables, Feminist, Feminism

  1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. CollectedinVamps andTramps (1994).

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• Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Ruth, Care, Pages

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”, p.121, Candlewick Press

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