Kathryn Minshew Quotes

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

I don't mind not being cool.

I don't always understand my worth.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

When I was a kid, I always had the red hair, the white skin, and freckles. Back then, I wanted to look like everybody else, but now I realize that being different is definitely a major help.

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'

I know who I am and I know who I'm not. I'm different, yes, and I am big. But I love who I am.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.