Marilyn Monroe Quotes

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

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.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.

I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.