Quotes About Self-worth

Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.

If you can't handle me in sweatpants, you don't deserve me in stilettos

It was like Tobin had told her: they didn't matter. She never should have given them that much power.

If you can't handle can't handle me in sweatpants, You don't deserve me in stilettos

We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Oh, why do I even care what other people think?

Ik tors drie lasten: ik ben homoseksueel, ik ben katholiek, en ik ben blank. Moet ik mij daarvoor schamen? Geenszins! (Goedkeurend gemompel.) Homoseksueel ben ik bij geboorte, en rooms-katholiek ben ik door genade: aan geen van beide is dus ene moer meer te doen. En kan men mij verwijten dat ik blank ben? Ik zoude niet weten hoe. Ik schaam mij er niet voor dat ik blank ben, en ik houd het ook niet geheim: ik zoude dat niet eens willen. (Geroep: "Die man die heb gelijk!")

Don't let anyone tell you you aren't good enough. You are good enough; You are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her love is guided by the search for security, if not for her offspring then for her crippled and fearful self, she cannot expect to find it in her own kind, whom she knows to be weak and unsuitable.

If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

Finding within yourself a sense of value that does not depend on your achievements will make you more resistant to crippling self-doubts. Unconditional

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.

Finding within yourself a sense of value that does not depend on your achievements will make you more resistant to crippling self-doubts.

My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you. But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.' 'Why?' 'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

A stark sense of isolation encloses anyone who looks outward for validation.

There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.

Having an unresolved Bad Boyfriend issue is like carrying around credit card debt . . . which can still show up and wreck your rating.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

No matter what I give, I will always fall short of what I—daughter, mother, wife—am supposed to be.