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Quotes About Self-worth

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
~ Germaine Greer
Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.
~ Zan Perrion
Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.
~ Sylvia Day
I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.
~ Candace Bushnell
In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.
~ Matthew Hussey
Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.
~ Tory Burch
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
~ George Eliot
Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.
~ Dacia Maraini
I hope more women see, at least eventually, that a healthy relationship isn't anything that breaks you down.
~ Debby Ryan
I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
~ Lena Dunham
Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
~ Mika Brzezinski
If women only knew the extent of their power!
~ Alphonse Karr
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
~ Diana Vreeland
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.
~ Sherry Argov
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
~ Julian Barnes
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~ Patricia Ireland
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
~ John Ralston Saul
Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
~ Amber Valletta
I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
~ Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
~ Gloria Steinem
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
~ Barbara Walters
There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
~ Amy Dickinson