self-respect Quotes

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

You alone are enough.

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Don't feel sorry for me.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.