Analysis Quote by Ava Gardner

I felt no one really understood me.

— James Bowen

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid…

— Gangaji

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

— Gabriela Sabatini

They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about it, even…

— Karen Chance

“From now on, I would surround myself with people who loved me, not people who hated me.”

— Theresa Weir

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat.…

— Alice Sebold

Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that…

— Nora Roberts

“After all, these were not topics you could discuss with someone else; what was there to say to another person about how it felt?…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

— Beverly Sills

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

— Madonna Ciccone

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

— Alice Hoffman