#esteem

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#i #low #low self-esteem #self-esteem #suffer

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#believe #breaking #comes #dissolution #down

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#courage #esteemed #first #guarantees #human

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#body-image #self-esteem #society #weight #beauty

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#body-image #self-esteem-or-lack-thereof #beauty

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. ↗

— Judi Dench

#difficulty #esteem #expected #more #sort

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

So many comics have such low self-esteem. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#low #low self-esteem #many #self-esteem #such

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

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture