Quotes About Self-esteem

I've read articles by child psychologists who have identified lack of self-esteem as the evil at the root of so much bad, even criminal behavior. I don't know if that's right. But even if it is, I don't believe Belle and Joe will gain self-esteem by constantly being told they're special just for being there.

Abel,' she said after a moment, 'do you think that I am beautiful?' She had gone to the opposite wall and turned. She leaned back with her hands behind her, throwing her head a little in order to replace a lock of hair that had fallen across her brow. She sucked at her cheeks, musing. 'No, not beautiful,' he said.

Our malady is not low self-esteem, nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.

Betty Big Boobs

Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don't think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they're all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our beauty so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

women who looked like fashion models—admitted to knowing, from the time they could first consciously think, that the ideal was someone tall, thin, white, and blond, a face without pores, asymmetry, or flaws, someone wholly "perfect," and someone whom they felt, in one way or another, they were not. I

The beauty myth generates low self-esteem for women and high profits for corporations as a result.

In a survey of 494 middle-class schoolgirls in San Francisco, more than half described themselves as overweight, while only 15 percent were so by medical standards. Thirtyone percent of nine-year-olds thought they were too fat, and 81 percent of the ten-year-olds were dieters.

An employer can't prove an employee incompetent simply by announcing that she is. But because "beauty" lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self-esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in the place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.

By simply dropping the official weight one stone below most women's natural level, and redefining a woman's womanly shape as by definition "too fat," a wave of self-hatred swept over First World women, a reactionary psychology was perfected, and a major industry was born. It suavely countered the historical groundswell of female success with a mass conviction of female failure, a failure defined as implicit in womanhood itself.

The harm is apparent in the way such imagery represses female sexuality and lowers women's sexual self-esteem by casting sex as locked in a chastity belt to which "beauty" is the only key.

Is beauty really sex? Does a woman's sexuality correspond to what she looks like? Does she have the right to sexual pleasure and self-esteem because she's a person, or must she earn that right through beauty, as she used to through marriage?

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

They reclassify healthy female flesh as "cellulite," an invented "condition" that was imported into the United States by vogue only in 1973; they refer to this texture as "disfiguring," unsightly," "polluted with toxins." Before 1973, it was normal female flesh.

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it. And vice versa.

Entonces? ¿O es que tienes tan bajo concepto de ti mismo que no crees que valga la pena escribir sobre ti?

Amilyen Å'si, oly biztos e tapasztalat: mondd meg, mivel dicsekszel, s én megmondom, mi hiányzik leginkább belÅ'led.

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa." "Then I must be quite something," Isabella replied.

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa.

Solucionados el tema e la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes.

Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state, And all the fawning flatt'rers hate: Value your selves, and men despise, You must be proud, if you'll be wise.