I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
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I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
I had low self-esteem.
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.
I've suffered from low self-esteem.
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.
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