8 Quotes by Gloria Steinem about self-esteem
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I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.
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Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
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Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
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We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.
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Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
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Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
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As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.
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I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
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