Quotes About Insecurity

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

It was just too tense, being with Daddy. He wanted everything done in a certain way that only he knew about. I was afraid to move half the time. One I spilled some juice on one of his foreign rugs, and he told me I would never find a husband.

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us. And then we wake up at age seventeen or twenty-five or thirty-seven and realize we don't know the last time we've lived life only to please ourselves

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us. And then we wake up at age seventeen or twenty-five or thirty-seven and realize we don't know the last time we've lived life only to please ourselves.

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt."-Alison Croggon

When people are afraid, they will give up almost anything for an illusion of safety.

When people are afraid they will give up almost anything for the illusion of safety.

I don't know. … Vanity? Insecurity? Kardashianism?

It's the price you pay for being dumb enough to feel secure in your life.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

The only reason any smoker lights a cigarette is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous cigarette created.

Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

Will you still want me if I'm poor, Kat?" "What kind of question is that?" "No. Seriously. You're the planner. Simon's the genius. The Bagshaws are the muscle. And Gabrielle is . . . Gabrielle. But what am I, Kat? I'm the guy who writes the checks." "No. You're the most naturally gifted inside man I have ever seen. And I was raised by Bobby Bishop." She made him look into her eyes. "I don't care about your money.

I felt like Barbie's less-than-perfect friend.

I am my own worst enemy. But if there were to be a second place, it would go to this girl.

if all things were equal, would he still like me then? But I would never know, because things would never be equal. DeeDee would always be flesh and blood to him, and I'd always be a legend.

In fact, I don't read as many YA novels as I used to because YA is just so good and, inevitably, I always end up in the fetal position on the floor, rocking back and forth, mumbling about how my book will never be as good as the book I just finished.

I've spent my whole life tailing after people who think they're more interesting than me

Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

We would not know what happens if we did not know extreme pleasure, if we did not know extreme pain! It is because we sense that the only way to know what we are capable of, what we care about, what we fear, is to plunge into insecurity, loneliness, hunger, and cold, that we leave home to hitchhike across the country.

Por qué te escondes tras esos vaqueros holgados y esas sudaderas con capucha? ¿No sabes lo hermosa que eres? - Damen Auguste