Quotes about self-esteem
self-esteem men thinking
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? Naomi Wolf
self-esteem mean sick
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
self-esteem eye reflection
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
self-esteem equality behaviour
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
self-esteem advancement used
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
self-esteem air identity
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.
self-esteem eye men
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
self-esteem body aging
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
self-esteem names iron
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.
self-esteem age gold
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
self-esteem perception discrimination
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
self-esteem social-values workplace
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.
self-esteem sight faces
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
self-esteem stereotype constraints
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
self-esteem her-beauty today
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
self-esteem men body
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
self-esteem hatred perception
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.
self-esteem real equality
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
self-esteem naked done
The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body. Lucian Freud
self-esteem decisions-you-make risk
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. Maimonides
self-esteem men law
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit. Mahatma Gandhi
self-esteem self-confidence men
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
self-esteem procrastination action
Action will destroy your procrastination. Og Mandino
self-esteem believe miracle
We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.
self-esteem vision higher
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. Orison Swett Marden
self-esteem opportunity individual
The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities Norman Vincent Peale
self-esteem thinking made
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
self-esteem thinking forget
Forget yourself! Think courage.
self-esteem father rejection
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.' Ellen Muth
self-esteem concern esteem
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. Epictetus
self-esteem responsibility hands
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. Henry Winkler
self-esteem thinking hands
Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go. Helena Bonham Carter
self-esteem hands stranger
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?