Quotes About Pressure

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this weight. She looked tired, as she often did these days. Her tiredness bored me, made me want to attack her for it.

Most people cope in some fashion or other with the various strains under which they live, or they simply come out in spots, or leave home, or get drunk.

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.

Hair is truly priceless, as we can never account for the hours or the price to the psyche and self-esteem of women who are constantly obsessing about what is happening on top of their heads.

I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

what it was. They wanted Andrew too, of course, and he was petrified. He basically stayed out of the country until it was all over, which is one of the

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.