Quotes About Self-worth

I am walking down the street in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue in the lower sixties, women with shopping bags on all sides. I realize with some horror that for the last fifteen blocks I have been counting how many women have better and how many women have worse figures than I do. Did I say fifteen blocks? I meant fifteen years.

No man is worth the whole world.

There is a flash in her eyes as she expects to be rejected yet again. How is it possible after all that she has been through that she can still let people hurt her?

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

I've learned that if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. An that sometimes there is no failure, just opportunity.

The seminal journey of the forties is from "everyone hates me" to "they don't really care.

In the U.S. sometimes I have the feeling that if it's not difficult for you, you have to feel bad about that," he says.

That's what I want, she thought, with the fiercest feeling of wanting she'd ever had in her life. She wanted that look her granny had, that look that told the world here I am, I'm somebody, and here is my life. I been young and old and in between, I loved a man, raised my children, worked, laughed, cried, and, see, even after all that, here I still am. "I'll be

You are not anyone's opinion of you. You are whoever you choose to be.

She had vowed never to shed one more tear over a worthless man. But it went against all that she knew to imagine Eli as worthless. He had always been the one guy she could run to. The one guy she could believe in. The one guy who was living, breathing evidence that she was worthy of love and care. Obviously, he no longer loved or cared.

Yes, Eli was gorgeous and sexy and she was still in love with him. That made her vulnerable. But being vulnerable was not the same as being defenseless. She was learning to be strong, she was learning not to settle for less than the kind of love she knew was out there, somewhere.

It's rare that I have a boyfriend- that only happens if I fall in love. I've noticed that people who are never in a relationship just to be in a relationship keep their childlike spark because they don't end up settling for things that make them unhappy, and they never feel as if they took less than what was out there for them. So for me, being single is what I do, and falling in love is the exception.

I think a very key thing for women is to refuse to let anyone tell you you're banned, you're out of fashion, you don't look the right way. Put your energy into a career that will be there for you regardless of the naysayers.

there is a rock bottom that you can hit, even if you are young and beautiful and smart and loved.

Boobs are like boyfriends. You go around wishing for them and trying to figure out what you have to do to get them, and worrying about all the things you're probably doing wrong, and then one day, who knows why, you wake up and find you've got more than you wanted.

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.

The people who hurt you don't get the last word. You get to tell the story of you, and your story has more power than you can imagine.

Girl-shaming as a sport and industry needs to be over.

Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as "real work.

no punishment anyone might inflict on them could possibly be worse than the punishment they inflict on themselves by conspiring in their own diminishment.

is not a voracious capitalism but the spiritual insight that we cannot buy the identity and security we seek.