Jealousy Quotes

“The self-centered person did not get the attention he needed as an infant and so must manufacture it for himself. He is unable or reluctant to take a realistic view of himself as just another person in the world, sometimes playing a star role, sometimes not' most often, neither star nor audience, but a human being getting on with life like any other. Self-centered people forever need to wrest attention from everyone else. They are preoccupied with their importance or lack of it, always looking in mirrors, talking about their friends and never interested in yours. Ironically, the hypochondriac, always telling us about his ulcers, his weight problem, the pimple on his nose, is self-centered too. The clue to the self-centered personality is whether he is telling you how big and marvelous he is, or how small and near death, he must always keep himself the focus of conversation, the center of attention. People often say he has a "big ego". The fact is that he has very little "ego" at all.”
― Nancy Friday, Jealousy and Envy