Quotes About Self-worth

the form of gossip, betrayal, and unwarranted judgment. Women are also more prone than men to compare themselves to one another.

used the sordid details of my stories as an excuse to talk badly about men, judge them, mistrust them, expect little from them, and give of myself begrudgingly as I waited for the axe to fall on my neck.

there comes a point where a person's psycho-social history is of little or no consequence.

Fuck you. I am more than just a pair of ovaries you can put a ring on.

Letting it matter too much. If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again.

If somebody doesn't call me a bitch once a day, I figure I'm not doing my job.

Officer down. Officer down. I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury.

You're not perfect, and that makes you just exactly right.

A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore.

It's too easy to become discouraged when no one values your skills and your efforts.

He equates his worth with his penis, and also uses it as a weapon." "Okay, now I see it wearing a gold chain and toting a blaster. Stop now.

If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again." "Who

You were never what he wanted you to be. And more than even I hoped. In weak moments, I might credit the lieutenant for some of that.

Perhaps I could-- She snarled at him, hunched protectively over her unit. You just want to show off. Would I be that small? To cut me down on this, you'd shrink to microscopic.

women's beauty doesn't belong to the women herself. She's the part of treasure, which she brings into the world. It's her duty to share it.

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.

y si tengo algún derecho es el derecho a que no me juzgues de este modo, a no tener que justificarme: ni ante ti ni ante nadie.

For fuck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood.

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

I am not worthy. he said softly. Damn fucking straight, someone growled.

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.

I don't think we're fit for visual consumption. Adrian reached up and cranked the rearview mirror his way. Whatever, I'm gorgeous...wow. I... Look like shit.

I don't do one-night stands, she blurted. Who says one will be enough.

Hell yeah, you can pay. This was your idea and I'm not blowing part of my rent money this month just to prove I'm a feminist. I can do that for free by demanding respect and getting it.