Debbie Rowe Quotes

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

I'm not a good mother at all.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

I am not fit for this office [the Presidency] and never should have been here.

I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

I think I would probably have been a good mother.

There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.

'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when you feel like you or your work is a fluke and that you're a dwarf amongst giants. Many of us have this, especially when we're in some sort of creative industry.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.

Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?

You make one mistake and you feel like the worst person in the world.

The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not?