Quotes About Validation

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys [...]

An employer can't prove an employee incompetent simply by announcing that she is. But because "beauty" lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self-esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in the place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.

Pain is real when you can get other people to believe in it. If no one believes it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say.

Sose fogadjon el olyan kitüntetést, ami nem egy csekk hátán érkezik.

Nekad nepie?emiet apbalvojumus, ja tie nav uzdruk?ti uz bankas ?ekiem. Jo cit?di tie n?k par labu tikai pieš??r?jiem.

To be believed, you had to have the support of the Somebodies

He flipped his hands out to motion her away. Go change clothes six times and stand in front of the mirror. I'll tell you if your jeans make your butt look fat.

Me too," Hannah said.

Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.

I call people sometimes hoping not only that they'll verify the fact that I'm alive but that they'll also, however indirectly, convince me that being alive is an appropriate state for me to be in. Because sometimes I don't think it's such a bright idea. Is it worth the trouble it takes trying to live life so that someday you get something worthwhile out of it, instead of it almost always taking worthwhile things out of you?

The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to see it

I needed someone to tell me that I wasn't as useless as everyone else was making me feel.

I was right. And right wins every time.

I want to get back to doing what it is that I love, what makes my world normal again. And I want people to believe in me again. I want you to look at me and listen to me without doubt that I can see so obviously. I'm second-guessing myself enough as it is. I don't need it from everyone else too.

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma.

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

Usually I feel kind-of normal and lame, and then I'll go to the coffee shop and someone'll say, 'You rock!' And then I'll remember how awesome I am.

But there comes a landing point, where you finally get to a stage where you have something to hang your hat on. Then your family see that this is definitely happening and you're making a success of it.

When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.