self-respect Quotes

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.