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Self Esteem Quotes by Naomi Wolf
- 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…
- Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
- 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…
- 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…
- The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the…
- What editors are obliged to appear to say that
- 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…
- Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
- '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…
- Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
- A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
- As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
- The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
- 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,…
- Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
- Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
- The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
- 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…
- 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…
- Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.…
- 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…
- What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
- Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
More Self Esteem Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. — Richard Bach
- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
- I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job… — Tyra Banks
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister
- Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. — Drew Barrymore
- I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. — Drew Barrymore
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. — Bernard Baruch
- Never follow the crowd. — Bernard Baruch
- It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from… — Melody Beattie