Quotes About Insecurity

He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.

I stood by the fire, everyone around me so cheerful, and thought what an odd creature I am – even I know that. Too much space and I'm frightened, too little and I'm frightened. There is indeed no comfortable place for me – I am too near the fire or too far away. Behind

Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sicker.

You need to trust that your art, once created, has a value apart from you, just as a child, come into the world, has a value separate from the parents who gave it life. When you give in to self-loathing, insecurity, or stage fright, you are looking at your work from the outside, and the outside is a shapeless darkness that contains all your self-doubt and fears.

People are shallow things. If anyone has even a bit more than they do, they're jealous, and if one has less, they look down on her.

A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves...

And if I may give you a piece of advice: a clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves.…

I'm not a public speaker. I don't even like making toasts. It hits me in a way I can't really explain. I've literally sat with a therapist to try to figure out what that is, because I'm such a public persona.

But have you ever felt that something was so good it couldn't possibly last?

What happens to children of critical-eyed parents is that they begin avoiding criticism at all costs because it becomes too threatening. Rather than finish a task, they'll stop an inch short and start something else.

They believe they have to earn their value and their worth, and that's why they always try to please.

What if it isn't good enough? What if this is the book that will make everyone hate me?

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

I don't want to go in there," Bessie said. "Everyone is going to stare at us." "No one is going to stare at you, Bessie," I told her. "They will. They'll think we're weirdos." "Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

A bunch of women wanting you...that's what you get for being so damn sexy. All of us should be so screwed up.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.

Men. Such easy prey. Which is why so many men hate women...or at least fear them, which is much the same thing. They know, even if they don't know they know, that a smart good-looking woman holds all the cards. They know, even if they don't know they know, that males are the weaker sex. Why else would they repress females all over the world from the dawn of historical time?

but I couldn't decide if I was a courageous person in real life or whether I could only sing onstage. In that way I haven't changed much in thirty years at all.

Fear of failure is an insidious thing. Leads people to pretend they never wanted a medal in the first place.

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.