#esteem

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-esteem #self-love #change

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #images #magazines #marketing

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#big #business #discover #especially #fairly

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#esteem #highly #man #wish #would