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Quotes About Insecurity

I hate to be laughed at,' she said finally. 'I won't laugh any more, I'm not laughing now, am I?' 'You did.' 'Oh, don't be so darned feminine.' Her lips curled slightly. 'I'll be anything I want.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
And as far as Norma was concerned, that was the main problem with life. You never knew what was going to happen from minute to minute, and more than anything in this world, Norma hated a surprise.
~ Fannie Flagg
No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A
~ Fannie Flagg
Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
My self-critical mind allows me to see only the defects and faults in my own work, and so I only have the courage to write snippets and snatches, brief notes on the theme of nonexistence, and yet even the little I write is imperfect.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I feel a kind of horror at the superior tyranny that obliges us to keep walking even though we have no idea what it is that our uncertainty is going to meet.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
~ Flann O'Brien
Only traumatised people want to be famous.
~ Alanis Morissette
I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating.
~ Russell Tovey
Although I have fantastic connections, I didn't know as a child what feeling secure meant.
~ Alfie Allen
It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.
~ Kesha
I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.
~ Stella McCartney
I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
There were times I didn't know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good - bigger, stronger, faster.
~ Kemba Walker
I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
~ Maeve Binchy
I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.
~ Kate Winslet
I was 49 kgs in 'Viva' and I was fat shamed everyday.
~ Neha Bhasin
I was rather a fat little boy.
~ Cyril Cusack
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
~ Benjamin Millepied
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
~ Sara Bareilles
I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.
~ Peter DeLuise
I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.
~ Sophie Monk
Kids would tell me I was fat and say other mean things about my body.
~ Lauren Jauregui