26 Quotes by Jen Wilde

Just because I made it here doesn’t mean it was easy. And just because I don’t seem overwhelmed doesn’t mean I’m not.

Social hangovers. It’s like a normal hangover, but instead of being caused by too much alcohol, it’s caused by too much social exposure and overstimulation of the senses.

You can’t pick and choose whose equality you support. That’s not equality.

That nervousness that makes your palms sweat and your heart race before you get up and make a speech in front of an audience? That’s what I feel in a normal conversation at the dinner table. Or just thinking about having a conversation at the dinner table.

Anxiety isn’t an attack that explodes out of me; it’s not a volcano that lies dormant until it’s triggered by an earth-shattering event. It’s a constant companion. Like a blow fly that gets into the house in the middle of summer, flying around and around. You can hear it buzzing, but you can’t see it, can’t capture it, can’t let it out.

I know I’ll never be able control what other people think. It’s not my job to convince others of who I am. My only job is to be who I am. All I can do is find what makes me happy, and live it.

I didn’t see how much of my self-worth had been tied into that relationship until it was over. The hardest part wasn’t leaving her behind; it was feeling like I’d left pieces of myself behind. The only pieces I liked.

You are not weak. People like us, we’re brave. We’re the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.