We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

Emma Donoghue

Tags: women insecurity



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Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Graham Greene

Tags: love marriage insecurity



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Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

William Giraldi

Tags: murder insecurity homicidal



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Unfortunately, I am only myself.

Lisa Burstein

Tags: first-sentence insecurity



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Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.

Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.

Lisa Burstein

Tags: coming-of-age insecurity being-yourself



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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Criss Jami

Tags: inspirational confidence courage joy security cowardice challenges bigotry affirmation refusal insecurity conflict-resolution



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But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.

Joseph J. Ellis

Tags: insecurity alexander-hamilton



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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

Robert Hughes

Tags: art doubt greatness self-esteem confidence humility fame introspection artists creative-process self-awareness depression self-delusion self-doubt narcissism insecurity self-esteem-or-lack-thereof self-doubts fame-and-fortune depression-humor cezanne great-art great-artist paul-cezanne



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Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Jacqueline Novogratz

Tags: freedom poverty international-development insecurity



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David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!

Francine Pascal

Tags: blending-in insecurity sweet-valley ethnic



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