Quotes About Insecurity

That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Do women dress for men or women? I've always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It's disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn't matter where it comes from.

Ya te lo dije: me encanta tu abuela, me encantan los gatos de la cocina y tu madre, aunque no la conozca muy bien, y me encantan tus plantas y tu cuarto y tú, excepto cuando te pones idiota y te preocupas tanto por que no me vaya a gustar… ¡lo que sea!

I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be

She was also correct that I was guided by my fear and my hope that my good behavior would buy my mother's love. It hadn't.

My grandmother accused me of hurting my mother. Other relatives accused me of being an ungrateful child. Mom said I was mean and cruel and had hurt her deeply. Still impressionable and my spirits tottering under the load of the pain from the past, I accepted the notion that I was that selfish and ungrateful daughter, careless of my mother's feelings.

I think anger is often a kind of recycled fear.

But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I was too afraid for too long. It made me think about things I never should have.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

You might not be so lucky if you keep looking at my wife like that," he snarls.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

L'envie est une déclaration d'infériorité.

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Writing can be very lonely. Who's going to read it, who cares about it?

I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn't.

I felt like you could open a door in my hollow, tin chest--just flip it open, easy--and see my heart throbbing, raw and bloody and sore. You could even reach in and squish it if you wanted to. I didn't want anyone getting close enough to open that door and see that mess (250-251).

Even Robot Girls get nervous sometimes. -Beatrice Szabo

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

Furthermore, having lost faith in himself, he thought it his duty to undermine the nation's faith in itself.

If my aim is to prove I am "enough," the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.