The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

'Glee' has made me feel beautiful.

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

When you grow up with constantly being told or made to feel that you are less than, then it's very difficult to grow into an adult and to shake that off.

I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I've been trolled myself for adding on pounds and would dread the negative comments if I posted beach pictures.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend...

I was worried that if I lost my hair, I would lose my job.

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go...

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly...

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed at for being too dark.

When I'm walking, and I can feel my thighs touch? I don't want that.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I'm sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological...

I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.