“‘Have some self respect’ literally has nothing to do with me. It’s about you rating and weighing my behaviour against a 2 dimensional caricature of a women that you think deserves basic decency. I respect myself. What you mean is ‘please conform to my personal, rigid beliefs of what I deem acceptabl…”— iamatinyowl, iamatinyowl.tumblr.com
“in the morning i’ll be ten feet tall solid gold not sorry for anything”— Nicola Maye Goldberg, electriccereal.com
“Eventually the young woman realizes how often it is in her self-interest to make herself desirable. She learns how to arrange herself to generate a kind of reaction. As children learn behaviors by example, so does she learn sexy from the mirror. Media provides the perfect surface (charmed, shiny, sl…”— Larissa Pham, camgirlproject.tumblr.com
“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”— Caroline Caldwel, twitter.com
“If you are reading this, you have survived your entire life up until this point. You have survived traumas, heartbreak, devastation, the elements, different phases of life. And here you are. You go, motherfucker. You’re awesome.”— askclint, excusemewhileistrip.tumblr.com
“You are a weapon. People deny their own strength because they are afraid of their own strength. Whether it’s a corrupt government or an abusive lover, those who seek to control you want you to forget your strength, because they are afraid of you. And they should be afraid.”— Bryant McGill, bryantmcgill.com
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“You don’t get anything you want by subscribing to the social rules of today.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You not finding me attractive is not going to stop me from being attractive.”— farfrompaid, baebiigurl.tumblr.com
“I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. Say it when no one says it to you, like a prayer you give for the dead”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“I am the book you pick up but never buy. I am the book you open but never finish to read and that’s okay. I write for myself anyway.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“You are not hard to love if you can love yourself and no one has the authority to break you except you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able t…”— Hillary Clinton, popsugar.com
“I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.”— Kim Kardashian, forbes.com
“In my life, no one has to do anything they don’t want to do, and no one is told what to do.”— Kim Kardashian, elleuk.com
“Don’t you see? You were born a revolution. Not all men were made to join you in your brilliance. Not all men can handle fire. Some men will run, too afraid of the flames.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com