Self Esteem Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”
– Martha Gellhorn

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away”.”
– Michele Woolley

“God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life that is much bigger than you can imagine.”
– Michele Woolley

“Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems”
– Michele Woolley

“with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26″).”
– Michele Woolley

“Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.”
– Mohammed Ali Bapir

“Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women’s advancement.”
– 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 being transformed into operable condition–
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men‘s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
– Naomi Wolf

“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.
– Naomi Wolf

“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies. The price we pay for artificially buoying up this market is our heart‘s desire. The beauty myth keeps a gap of fantasy between men and women. That gap is made with mirrors; no law of nature supports it. It keeps us spending vast sums of money and looking distractedly around us, but its smoke and reflection interfere with our freedom to be sexually ourselves.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
– Naomi Wolf

“The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.
– Naomi Wolf

“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 heads of rising women, for them to emulate.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today’s woman has become her “beauty.”
– Naomi Wolf

“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.”
– Naomi Wolf

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.
– Naomi Wolf

“Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.”
– Naomi Wolf

“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
– Naomi Wolf

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