Quotes About Self-worth

Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, "And what will you give me in return?

And I know nobody gets to live or not live because they deserve it, deserving doesn't count for a thing, but the point was, I now felt deep in my heart that I was in fact a better human being than Magnus or Todd, and hooray, all the prizes for me, but that wasn't helpful when what I actually needed was reasons why I shouldn't just wipe them out of existence.

It's always mattered a lot to me to keep a wall up round my dignity, even though dignity matters fuck-all when the monsters under your bed are real.

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

When Orion finally got round to dumping me, I wanted to come out of this mess as something more than a school-wide reputation for being a bit of a slapper.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women's status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a defensive proof to aggressive competitors of womanhood or manhood. Since both value systems are reductive, neither reward is ever enough, and each quickly loses any relationship to real-life values.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys [...]

It profits women little if we gain the whole world only to fear ourselves.

The problem with cosmetics exists only when women feel invisible or inadequate without them. The problem with working out exists only if women hate ourselves when we don't. When a woman is forced to adorn herself to buy a hearing, when she needs her grooming in order to protect her identity, when she goes hungry in order to keep her job, when she must attract a lover so that she can take care of her children, that is exactly what makes 'beauty' hurt.

O mito da beleza gera nas mulheres uma redução de amor-próprio, com o resultado de altos lucros para as empresas.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

for women's magazines cannot become more interesting until women believe that we ourselves are more interesting—the myth is bound to become many times more powerful.

Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary

The man who can organize and direct a Master Mind group of men who possess knowledge useful in the accumulation of money, is just as much a man of education as any man in the group. REMEMBER THIS, if you suffer from a feeling of inferiority, because your schooling has been limited.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

Hay épocas y lugares en los que no ser nadie es más honorable que ser alguien.

Leute mit kleiner Seele versuchen immer, die anderen herabzusetzen.

Ci sono epoche e luoghi in cui essere nessuno è più onorevole che essere qualcuno

Er hat gesagt, dass Sie nicht glauben, dass jemand Sie lieben kann, weil Sie sich selbst nicht lieben und glauben, dass niemand sie geliebt hat. Und dass Sie das der Welt nicht verziehen.