Development Quote by Matilda Joslyn Gage

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in Western culture…

— Stephanie Golden

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

— W. Somerset Maugham

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

— Malcolm Knowles

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for…

— Jean Baker Miller

“For a young woman today, developing femininity successfully requires meeting three basic demands. The first of these is that she must defer to others,…

— Susie Orbach

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

— Ayn Rand

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

— Eric Hoffer