Quotes about self
self-esteem equality behaviour
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. Naomi Wolf
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 justice feminist
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
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 discipline needs
Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without. Narendra Modi
self-confidence skills people
When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.
self rely-upon break
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'. Napoleon Hill
selfish may matter
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
self mind approval
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
self achievement desire
Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
self self-control matter
Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
self goal focus
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
self-confidence firsts results
Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
self knows impediments
Self-love knows no impediment. Lynda Obst
self people creative
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you. Luke Evans
self soul cups
While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility. Ludwig Feuerbach
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
selfish thinking issues
I don't think there's a specific route to take to make a relationship last a long time. And who knows what the future will bring. Please God we are happy forever, but you just don't know what's round the corner. For me the key issue is not to be selfish, on both sides. I think the moment someone becomes selfish they let the other person down. Louise Redknapp
self-confidence self bears
I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all. Loretta Young
self silence defense
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
self charm absorption
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.