Quotes About Insecurity

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Eu sou egoísta, impaciente e um pouco insegura. Eu cometo erros, eu estou fora de controle e às vezes difícil de lidar. Mas se você não pode lidar comigo no meu pior, então com certeza não me merece no meu melhor.

Sono egoista, impaziente e un po' insicura. Commetto errori, sono fuori controllo e, allo stesso tempo, difficile da gestire. Ma se non sei in grado di gestire il mio lato peggiore, allora certamente non sarai in grado di gestire quello migliore.

I didn't mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Je suis égoïste, impatiente et peu sûre de moi. Je fais des erreurs, je suis hors de contrôle, et parfois difficile à gérer. Mais si vous ne pouvez pas me supporter pour le pire, nul doute que vous ne me méritez pas pour le meilleur.

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.

It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

Mire, yo le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma".

Quizá eso nos haya unido. Tal vez unido no sea la palabra más apropiada. Me refiero al odio implacable que cada uno de nosotros siente por su propio rostro. 

le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma».

Los celos retrospectivos (por su imposibilidad de rencor, por su falta de desafío, por su improbable competencia) son espantosamente crueles.

el miedo a las situaciones violentas es el que mayor inquietud me produce.

Her feet hurt, for Lady Clarendon had bought her daughter shoes too small for her in an attempt to make her large feet look smaller.

Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her

When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.

Men destroy only what they fear.

Well into my mid-thirties I considered dieting my biggest secret. I wish I could say it was a thrilling one, like dating my college TA, but it's more like waxing my upper lip—I didn't ever want to talk about it, and I'd rather people thought I never had to worry about it in the first place.