Women Self Esteem Quotes

#1. If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings.

Gina Greenlee

#2. Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Gloria Steinem

#3. And get some self-esteem. What the fuck is that? It's so annoying to see a pretty girl see herself as not worthy. You know what it makes us guys think you aren't worthy? We see you how you see you. You're pretty and funny and smart. Stop being such a douche-canoe.

Tara Brown

#4. Male social conditioning encourages boys and men to aim to bed as many women as possible....so much so, that their self esteem and self worth become intertwined with the number of sexual partners they have; and when that number is low or even zero, so too is their self-confidence.

Miya Yamanouchi

#5. Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Naomi Wolf

#6. I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

Hazel Hawke

#7. And girls who hold on to their assertiveness and self-esteem are less likely to grow up to be depressed women.

Julie Holland

#8. As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Naomi Wolf

#9. Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

#10. When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. When our feet talk to us, we listen.

Alexander Nestoiter

#12. No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.

Gloria Steinem

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

Helen Fisher

#16. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Phil McGraw

#17. 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

#18. You cannot be happy if you constantly compete with others for public approval.

Tisha Marie Payton, MHR

#19. My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Elinor Lipman

#20. I'm Jerry Lawler, I make fun of women because I have no self-esteem.

Santino Marella

#21. If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.

It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

Aspen Matis

#23. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Elaine Heffner

#24. You just have to say to yourself, "I am not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am Beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be happy!" It all starts with you.

Amari Soul

#25. Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#26. The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that.

Kristi Bowman

#27. 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

#28. Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

Stacy London

#29. 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

#30. Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold ... But a person's job tells you nothing about a person's character or value.

Billy Graham

#31. I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength.

Kjerstin Gruys

#32. Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Naomi Wolf

#34. 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

#35. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.

Sharon Law Tucker

#36. In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

Robert Galbraith

#37. Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

Amy Dickinson

#38. What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Naomi Wolf

#39. Katie wondered for a moment if part of the reason so many of the young women she knew who had poor self-esteem ended up that way because they had spent their lives gazing at themselves in a mirror instead of being the mirror others gazed into.

Robin Jones Gunn

#40. 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

#41. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Nenia Campbell

#42. When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Melina Marchetta

#43. Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Gloria Steinem

#44. Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Tracy McMillan

#45. In her 20's, a woman's breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40's, they halve it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#46. 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

#47. That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

Drew Chadwick

#48. I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.

Lil' Kim

#49. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas

#50. Drug cartels have taken the driver's seat, training our young
men and women on how best to self destruct, while the larger
community watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades lead
our people towards the path of self annihilation

Oche Otorkpa

#51. Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Kimberly Elise

#52. Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

Shannon L. Alder

#53. I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#54. Women are conditioned to give themselves away.

Sherry Argov

#55. I am art.
I am authentic.
I am love.
I am me.

Malebo Sephodi

#56. I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Madonna

#57. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. Stop making someone else's looks your "#goals". By all means aspire to be a better version of your current self, but don't glorify others when you yourself are glorious.

Miya Yamanouchi

#59. All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

Katrina Kaif

#60. Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Alice S. Rossi

#61. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

Shannon L. Alder

#63. With women, the way they look ... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Nia Peeples

#64. Well, I'm just glad some women watch it,' Dex says, turning his attention to the camera, perhaps feeling the animosity and low self-esteem just reeking from our pores.

Karina Halle