Suzi Quatro Quotes

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.

I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.