Quotes About Validation

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Maybe it was human nature to want to please the person who rejects you, who wants you to prove you deserve to be loved. Maybe.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongueWho says my hand a needle better fits,A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong,For such despite they cast on female wits:If what I do prove well, it won't advance,They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.

Feelings aren't right or wrong. They just are.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

she was one cocktail away from proving his mother right

The Asterians didn't call themselves anything special, because when everyone else refers to you as the shining people, you really don't have to do it yourself.

We who hate ourselves believe we are always wrong. We believe that our every thought, word, want, and deed is incorrect, insulting, barbarous. We so believe this that we beg forgiveness not just after every thought, word, want, and deed but during and before. We do this because we want everyone to know we know how wrong we are, how bumbling and ignorant and rude. We do this because we want them to know we know they know.

It's very demoralizing to be regarded as a problem rather than an individual.

care what people think

It's very demoralizing to be regarded as a problem rather than an individual.

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence: que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avaint dédaigné.

Obsession : « Qu'est-ce qu'on va penser de nous ? » (les voisins, les clients, tout le monde).

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence : que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avait dédaigné.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

It's hard for people who come from traditional homes to take women seriously. I do it myself. We're just not used to seeing women professionals. Women have to go out of their way to prove themselves.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.

Over all these years, I have never had a hit movie, never had a hit television programme and never had a hit record. To my way of thinking, that means success has not been achieved. I have made no mark of my own creation. This is something to be considered.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.