More quotations tagged with “self-image”
I know of no woman—virgin, mother, lesbian, married, celibate, whether she earns her keep as a housewife, a cocktail waitress, or a scanner of brain waves—for whom the body is not a fundamental problem: its clouded meanings, its fertility, its desire, its so-called frigidity, its bloody speech, its silences, its changes and mutilations, its rapes and ripenings.
—Adrienne Rich
When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.
—Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love
You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.
— Jessica Sorensen in The Secret of Ella and Micha
I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.
—Charlotte Bingham
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
—Mark Twain