Cocooning Quotes

#1. Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

Faith Popcorn

#2. There hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Karin Slaughter

#4. The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

Gloria Steinem

#5. Warm lips met her shoulder where he placed a light kiss. "Doona be afraid of me. I'll always protect you."
Kinsey moved back against him, allowing her shoulder to rub against his bare chest. Heat radiated from him, cocooning her in everything Ryder.

Donna Grant

#6. Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Faith Popcorn

#7. I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Ann Brashares

#8. Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

Faith Ringgold

#9. Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting ... and usually worth the wait.

Kirsten Miller

#10. Who is it?" I asked teasingly
"Bigfoot," Dex answered from his room.
"What do you want, Mr Foot?"
"Please, just call me Big."
I snorted. "You wish."
"You know.

Karina Halle

#11. I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.

Belle Starr

#12. Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Horace Mann

#13. forgiveness is a tool that's available to get us back to a God-realized life.

Wayne W. Dyer