Quotes on Women Self Respect

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.