Sentence examples for wounding myself from inspiring English sources

Her whole career was devoted to testing ways to "break through this film of the abstract // without wounding myself or you," as she wrote in "Cartographies of Silence" (1975), a poem about a lesbian affair and about the role that women's voices play in an environment where secrecy and code have of necessity taken on their own forms of power and beauty.

Wounded, wounded, wounded!

Nothing exemplified my rags better than me sitting in front of the laptop, preparing to sell this still wounded part of myself for $400, but without any debate, I emailed the essay to my 17-year-old client.

I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded?

"She threatened it: 'Someday before I kill myself, I'll bring some people down with me.' " Sylvia opened fire in a suburban Philadelphia shopping mall in 1985, killing three people and wounding seven.

We were all wounded people wounding people".

He had been to Vietnam; he had been wounded in Vietnam, like myself.

I loved the competition".. "When I was wounded, I said to myself, 'there goes all of my athleticism.' But no, no, no.

"I was slightly wounded but managed to pull myself out of the crowd.

I was really allowing myself to be wounded again and again, and it wasn't until I got pregnant that I decided that was no longer necessary.

When trauma left me emotionally and physically wounded, I froze to protect myself.