Penelope Mitchell Quotes

I don't want anyone to ever feel they are alone and no one likes them, or to feel as insecure as I did.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

I've lived my whole life trying to prove that I'm worthy of being a part of something because I never really felt that.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

Finally I want to say this: If you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I’m standing here to tell you: You are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

I felt like I couldn't fully be myself and accepted in my family, so I would lock myself in my room on a Saturday night and watch 'Saturday Night Live,' and that was, like, the best thing that ever happened to me.

I want to connect with people that feel unseen.

I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.

I know what it's like to be young and to feel like you don't belong.

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I didn't really have the personal agency to express it.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

I deeply believed that I wasn't worthy - that I couldn't be in the stories even I was creating. I don't want anyone else to feel like that.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.