"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more"
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The intent feels disarmingly practical. “There is a shyness about me” is phrased as a trait, almost a mild condition, not a wound; it’s the kind of self-description that avoids melodrama while still asking for understanding. Then “I really need to get out more” flips the line from identity to action. It’s self-management, not self-pity: a gentle scolding delivered to herself, with just enough humor to keep it from sounding like therapy-speak.
The subtext is about control. A woman whose image has been curated, contested, and consumed for decades is choosing a smaller frame: social anxiety, everyday inertia, the ordinary work of re-entering the world. In context, it also reads as a corrective to the Priscilla narrative that’s often reduced to Elvis, Graceland, and legend. She’s reclaiming personhood through something almost stubbornly unlegendary: the admission that even icons can feel awkward, and that reinvention sometimes looks like simply showing up.
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Presley, Priscilla. (2026, January 16). There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-is-a-shyness-about-me-and-i-really-need-to-101457/
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Presley, Priscilla. "There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-is-a-shyness-about-me-and-i-really-need-to-101457/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-is-a-shyness-about-me-and-i-really-need-to-101457/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

