Katharine Weymouth Quotes

I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to find where I belonged.

I was just a regular kid.

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I just want to be a normal person.

I think that I've always been a normal kid.

I was always so big, it took me a long time to grow into my body.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

I thought I was a good kid.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.