Martha Nussbaum Quotes

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

I always felt just that I didn't fit into certain groups.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

I grew up as a step-kid, always a little outside, always trying hard to follow and fit in. But over time, I've come to feel that my tendency toward self-erasure is a deep and real part of me. I think I'd be this way no matter how I grew up.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

I was so gangly, even sneakers looked awkward. Everybody kind of goes through some phase, and it's hard if you're singled out for anything. But there was this one boy in particular who made fun of me, and - it's funny - then later, when we were 18 or 19, he wanted to go out with me.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

Throughout school, I've faced ridicule and been complexed about my appearance. I almost turned into a nervous wreck. Peer pressure is bad. Children can be really cruel. Specially if you're not like everyone else.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'