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Quotes About Demeaning

Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.
~ Suzanne Collins
Further, low-self-esteem teachers are typically unhappy teachers, and unhappy teachers often favor demeaning and destructive tactics of classroom control.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.
~ Marlee Matlin
Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.
~ Donna Brazile
I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
~ Cameron Russell
There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women.
~ Beto O'Rourke
No one answered to the description of cook aboard these ships because the job was considered too demeaning.
~ Laurence Bergreen
I'm extremely unhappy with the projection of 'Tum' as a hot film. It's demeaning not just to me but to the producer and director.
~ Manisha Koirala
When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.
~ Hillary Clinton
When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.
~ Harvard Business School Press
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~ Jan Moran
What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a better perspective on all the work being done and how much of it is undesirable, unnecessary, and demeaning.
~ Guy Standing
Many heartfelt letters were from conservatives, who said they'd never seen a New York "liberal" discuss their views without belittling and demeaning them, and disaffected liberals also praised my willingness to defend free speech against the barrage of crazy hostility from their own side. The
~ Dave Rubin
My father disapproved. Secretary was a demeaning occupation, he said. It promised independence but was another knot in the millenary subjection of women to the rule of men.
~ Unknown
It's starting, Cecilia had thought sadly. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.
~ Liane Moriarty
to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes...
~ Liane Moriarty
She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.
~ Liane Moriarty
He made her name sound like a swear word.
~ Debbie Macomber
This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.
~ Desmond Tutu
As her demeaning grips became tighter His emotional and mental well being lowered Well his heart bled and his soul began to wither Yet his spirit was able to unleash a rejuvenation process And is willing to forget and forgive And with No apology he doesn't understand the analogy
~ Unknown
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
~ John Knowles
The left often refers nonjudgmentally to "sex workers" and tends to be tolerant of transactions among consenting adults. The right, joined by some feminists, refers to "prostitutes" or "prostituted women" and argues that prostitution is inherently demeaning and offensive. The result of this bickering is a lack of cooperation in combatting what everybody believes is abhorrent: forced prostitution and child prostitution.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
What-no!" Zemenar cried in horror as he began to melt. "Not soapsuds! It's demeaning." "There's a little lemon juice in it, too," Alianora offered.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.
~ Unknown