Winnie Mandela Quotes

They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.

I have a very good talent at finding out exactly what it is about yourself that you don't like and then keep bringing it up.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.

I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

When I was young, even though I received so much love, I used to pay attention to people who disliked me. That's why my lyrics were so sharp and dark.

I never thought I'd be good enough. I really didn't. There's probably some fans out there who say I'm still not good enough, and that's OK.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

I'm just another stupid human.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.