Quotes about self-esteem
self-esteem lying self-love
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. Plato
self-esteem goldfish bowls
I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl. Paula Fox
self-esteem thinking actors
To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors. Kurt Fuller
self-esteem insults-you praise
Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve. Khalil Gibran
self-esteem editors advertisers
What editors are obliged to appear to say that Naomi Wolf
self-esteem stronger rising
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
self-esteem men thinking
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
self-esteem mean sick
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
self-esteem eye reflection
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
self-esteem equality behaviour
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
self-esteem advancement used
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
self-esteem air identity
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
self-esteem eye men
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
self-esteem body aging
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
self-esteem names iron
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.
self-esteem age gold
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
self-esteem perception discrimination
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
self-esteem social-values workplace
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.
self-esteem sight faces
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
self-esteem stereotype constraints
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
self-esteem her-beauty today
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
self-esteem men body
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
self-esteem hatred perception
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.
self-esteem real equality
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
self-esteem procrastination action
Action will destroy your procrastination. Og Mandino
self-esteem believe miracle
We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.
self-esteem vision higher
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. Orison Swett Marden
self-esteem humility vanity
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. Eric Hoffer
self-esteem literature odor
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
self-esteem humility vanity
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
self-esteem self-respect levels
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
self-esteem yoga believe
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
self-esteem being-single people
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. Jo Coudert