Erin Gruwell Quotes

All it takes is for one person to say you’re ugly, and you’re like, I guess I’m ugly. And that was it.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

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.

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

My dad will always criticize me. He doesn't care if it hurts my feelings. If I start acting a certain way, he would be like, 'Who do you think you are?' So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' but I don't think it. I'm really hard on myself.

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.

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.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.