Quotes About Insecurity

After I had my drink with them and said good night to James Baldwin and was kissed by Simone Signoret on both cheeks, I went outside, walked close to my car, and threw up on the street. It wasn't about the food. I may act brave and sometimes outrageous—on screen—but in real life I get terribly nervous when I meet the great talents whom I've admired for years from afar.

as a woman alone in a large house refrains from looking into mirrors, and instead busies herself with trivial errands, so that she may catch no glimpse of the thing whose feet she hears at times on the stairs.

Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.

For Cato says that he who is guilty believes every one speaks only of him.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love .

We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.

It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them

He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust

She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if he were good enough for her, but merely asking herself anxiously how she could be good enough for Mr. Casaubon.

Él desconfiaba del cariño de Dorothea y ¿qué soledad hay mayor que la de la desconfianza?

In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.

You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

I know some women are intimidated by makeup.

I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.