self-acceptance Quotes

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I always felt an outsider.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak.