I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
There are no ugly ducklings.
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance...