Margaret Atwood Quotes

It's kind of hard to believe that people love me.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

It's nice when people love you....for you.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Thank you. (Nykyrian) For what? (Kiara) For giving me a life worth living. I know I’m not worth it, and that I don’t deserve it, but I swear to the gods I finally believe in that I will spend every moment I have left making you happy and trying to be worthy of you. (Nykyrian)

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

If I could just get over my issues of wanting people to like me.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.