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Quotes About Validation

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
~ Helene Cixous
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
~ Helen Fisher
What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
~ Lara Stone
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
~ Jane Austen
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
~ Mariella Frostrup
I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.
~ Eminem
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission."
~ Eve Ensler
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
~ Gloria Steinem
The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.
~ James Franco
For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.
~ Jami Floyd
You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.
~ Jessica Valenti
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
~ Judith Martin
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
~ Judith Martin
Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.
~ Judith Martin
It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel.
~ Kim Lyons
We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.
~ Kylie Bisutti
Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.
~ Maureen Murdock
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.
~ Phil McGraw
I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.
~ Roxane Gay
Women want to be chosen.
~ Shmuley Boteach
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
~ Rob Liano
You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Believe in yourself, not in your critics.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo