“Respect isn’t something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It’s something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“Any woman that would complain about your standards being too high has probably already compromised her own. Any man that would complain about your standards being too high is more than likely used to dealing with women who have none.”— Mr. Amari Soul, amazon.com
“Where we get in trouble with money is when we don’t admit what we want is respect. Or that what we want is a sense of contributing something important to the world.”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.”— Sherry Argov, goodreads.com