#inferiority

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#consider #deserving #families #female #first

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inferiority #self-esteem #superiority #truth #truth-telling

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#book #class #enters #every #him

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#different #each #evidence #gifts #indicates

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#ego #huge #i #inferiority #inferiority complex

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#being #black #confront #culture #demonic

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bored #complex #complexes #get #gets

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#because #brothers #competitive #complex #developed

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds