Attacking Quote by Billy Collins

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet…

— Robert James Waller

I was spending so much time trying to fit an image and trying to portray myself as something that wasn't me. I knew I…

— Darren Waller

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about…

— Virginia Williams

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that…

— Alanis Morissette

I got too caught up on what people thought about me when I lost.

— Coco Gauff

I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion…

— Decca Aitkenhead

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded…

— Lorrie Moore

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that…

— Alice Miller

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

— Paulo Coelho

I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less…

— A.M. Homes

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in…

— Ayad Akhtar

I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was…

— Kate Bornstein