Quotes about self-esteem
self-esteem integrity giving
I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [...] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator. Ashley Judd
self-esteem selfish care
Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.
self-esteem women
Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women. Kimberly Elise
self-esteem ocean erode
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
self-esteem undervalue
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. Samuel Johnson
self-esteem age golden
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived. Aberjhani
self-esteem love-yourself dare
Dare to love yourself
self-esteem love-yourself rainbow
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
self-esteem esteem agree
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for. Agatha Christie
self-esteem judging moments
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. Robert Johnson
self-esteem
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no. Jane Haddam
self-esteem people self-respect
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. Harvey Mackay
self-esteem thinking long
So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself. Neale Donald Walsch
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.