Sara Shepard Quotes

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.