Daily Inspiration Quote by Sigourney Weaver

Desire, Weaver suggests, has a built-in allergy to certainty. The guys “that don’t follow you around” aren’t just less available; they’re less legible, which is the point. Attraction here isn’t framed as romance’s noblest force but as a glitchy attention economy: we chase what withholds, we undervalue what reliably shows up. It’s a line that lands because it’s blunt enough to feel like overheard truth, yet self-aware enough to implicate the speaker in the same bad math.

The phrasing does sly work. “Usually” gives it plausible deniability - not a manifesto, just a pattern you recognize and maybe regret. “Follow you around” is deliberately unflattering, painting devotion as surveillance. That choice exposes the subtext: a fear that being pursued means being consumed, that interest can curdle into neediness, entitlement, or control. Weaver’s screen persona sharpens the context. As Ripley, she embodied a rare kind of female authority in blockbuster cinema, surrounded by men who alternately underestimate, fetishize, or menace her. From that cultural vantage, “being followed” isn’t cute; it’s a power dynamic.

The intent feels less like advising people to play hard-to-get than naming a trap: when validation is too easy, it stops reading as value and starts reading as threat, boredom, or obligation. It’s also a wink at how heterosexual scripts train women to equate pursuit with pressure and independence with intrigue. The line endures because it’s funny, a little ruthless, and uncomfortably accurate about how attraction often rewards distance over decency.