Yolanda King Quotes

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

There is an awful lot of pressure on me.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

Sometimes I put too much pressure on my back.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.