Roxane Gay Quotes

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I don't always understand my worth.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I'm not a stunning woman.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I had low self-esteem.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like, 'I am the dopest woman to exist on Earth'.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

I think I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, but I think that's good.

If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.