Quotes About Insecurity

Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.

To me, egotists seem bloated, flatulent. They watch out for number one, peer down their noses at you, and tend to be jealous or envious. (Still, egotists usually have varying capacities for empathy and love compared to narcissists, who're typically more incapacitated in these areas.)

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

It is true love because when he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the middle of the street, I always hope he's dead.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Tu manques de confiance en toi, et je veux te débarrasser de cette infirmité qui fait boiter ton bonheur

L'enfant se croyait la seule petite fille au monde. Savait-elle seulement qu'elle était une petite fille?

Fear is a foolish way to control people

Anders als Liebe macht Angst tatsächlich blind.

Ich fühl mich eigentlich immer scheiße außer manchmal.

Insults are the sincerest form of jealousy," I said. "So Tess and I thank you both for your correct perception of the inevitable.

So your ex was a biter?" I say, wondering if his ex-wife is attractive, athletic, fleet of foot and long of limb, wondering why dumpy dudes like Jeff feel entitled to such women.

I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice.

You interrupted the daily conversation between my ears that went something like this: What is wrong with you Julia?

For someone who fears being left... you sure do a lot of running.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth.

If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead.

She simply wasn't the sort of girl who attracted a man like him, and she feared that she never would be.

Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them.