Quotes About Insecurity

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

it takes a very secure male ego to handle sexual equality.

She sighed and shook her head. "I'm not worth yer time or effort. Truly, I'm not." "And

And she knew that no matter how fast she moved, she could not reach her mother quickly enough, and the doctor would be too slow, and tomorrow would be terrible in a way that would make her long for the security of all her old dissatisfactions.

It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour.

Men are forced to resort to ridiculous displays of bravado in front of women.

I hate when I take a woman to my bed who has already been in yours. I feel like they're comparing us." Grey grinned. "And find you lacking?" As much as he regretted some of his past, he was still a man, with a man's sexual pride. If looks could kill, he'd be on the grass gasping his last. "I doubt it.

I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.

She decided she could keep her face as stoic as her husband usually kept his. And then Lady Agnes wrapped her hands in Dominic's hair. Cass narrowed her eyes, tightened her grip on the edges of the saddle. She loved the feel of his hair, those satiny strands beneath her palms, the silvery mass of it twined about her fingers. Damn the woman, that was her territory, her favorite way of touching him. The

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

High school popularity is so fickle.

It was easy to make fun of Angela. And if it was unkind, which of course it was, it was also a way to ask without asking, Am I like her? No, you're not like her. Okay, phew, you're not like her, either. I don't need to tell you how many women's friendships are built upon this firm foundation.

It's... It's gross. Knowing there is something inside me that I don't understand. It's gross." - Allen Walker

The needy child voice inside me said, If she says you're a nut, then you must be a nut. She's your mother, the one who always tells the brutal truth.

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

shivers that settled in his belly and stayed there like moths in a jar.

Don't you get it? It doesn't matter where I go. Here, back there, France, the North Pole, it doesn't matter. I'll never be safe again. You could build a castle around me and seal it up and I'd still be what I am. And what I am is scared.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for love from a mother or father who cannot provide it is seemingly unquenchable. I have treated sixty- and seventy-year-old business executives, politicians, and physicians still desperate for approval from shriveled, emotionally barren men and women in their eighties and nineties. (257)

Fame—fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a huge oak tree and make farting sounds with its hands.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

Lately, she found herself thinking about Brent a lot, and for the first time, feeling angry. Because she had been twelve years old and all she'd wanted was a safe place, and now she was twenty-five and she wanted the same thing, and life shouldn't be so fucking hard, you shouldn't have to give so fucking much.