Jodi Picoult Quotes

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel - I don't want to say uncomfortable, but I still don't believe that I'm in 'fashion.'

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.