top of page
.png){kind=small}
"And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone."
Standard
Customized
More
"It is unwise to be part of what reduces you to less than yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. Respect yourself by respecting others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality."
Justice
"It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?"
Ethics
"I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric."
Creativity
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
Life
"You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead."
Mortality
"She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down."
Empowerment
"At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls."
Growth
"And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings."
Society
"It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone."
Literature
"Full stories are as rare as honesty."
Honesty
bottom of page