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#1

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: feminism, inspirational

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#2

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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#3

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: arrogance, arrogant, balance, corruption, ego, egotism, females, flaunt, girls, gossip, gossiping, head, hold-head, humble, humility, ignorant, immaterial, integrity, ladies, lady, materialism, no-merit, no-substance, no-value, pollution, proud, quality, shallow, shallowness, sins, superficial, superficiality, vain, valueless, vanity, virtue, woman, women, women-rights, women-strengths

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#4

“The willingness to walk away, above all other factors, does more to tell a woman of your high value than any amount of money can. You must be prepared to follow through and to fully believe that you’ll never see or hear from her again, because women instinctively know when you’re faking.”
― Roosh V, Bang: The Most Infamous Pickup Book In The World

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#5

“Subtle cues in your behavior will set the frame that you are a selective, high-value guy. She will pick up on this and gain interest. She expects that a guy with potential will be selective. Here are some standards worth considering:
An attractive woman who takes care of herself
A woman who is sociable and has friends
A woman who has a real thirst for life
A woman who has a great energy and a positive outlook
A woman who is not a flake”
― Erik Von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed

tags: standards, women

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#6

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
― Rob Liano

tags: adversity, advice, be-positive, begging, betrayed, better-than-this, breakups, broken, change-your-life, chasing, compete, competition, competitive-women, confidence, crying, dates, dating, daydreaming, decieved, deja-vu, delusional, denial-big-time, depression, desperate, dignity, doormat, exboyfriend, false-hope, find-your-balance, fool, foolish, get-moving, get-over-it, get-up, giving-up, hanging-on, heartbreak, hurting, ignorant, in-love, inner-peace, insecurity, jealous-women, know-worth, lack-of-confidence, lack-of-respect, let-go, lies, love, low-self-esteem, marriage, married-women, men, mercy, moving-on, nostalgic, pathetic, pity, pride, relationships, reputation, see-your-value, seeing, self-abuse, self-degradation, self-denial, self-empowerment, self-loathing, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, settling, single-woman, single-women, sorrow, staying-positive, stayingpositveu-com, strength, support, trial, true-strength, undermining, value, warrior-woman, warrior-women, woman, women

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#7

“We can't settle for pieces from a man. We can't trade our happiness and self-respect for the opportunity to be held, cuddled and given tenderness. we can't give ourselves away for the words we want to hear if there's no action behind them. We deserve a healthy man who can make us happy. We can't stop remembering: "All men are jerks until proven otherwise." Until he proves otherwise, we can't get too caught up in his "goodies".”
― Daylle Deanna Schwartz, All Men Are Jerks - Until Proven Otherwise: A Woman's Guide to Understanding Men

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#8

“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do.”
― Shannon Alder

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#9

“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

tags: confidence, poetry, womanhood

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#10

“If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: blinded, cheat, confidence, dignity, dishonorable, emotional-affair, ex-boyfriend, fake, flirtation, flirting, gullible, liar, lies, low-self-esteem, lying, players, relationships, self-worth, spouse, stupid-women, worth

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#11

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertive, assertiveness, bravery, choices, confidence, courage, coward, daughter-of-god, dignity, disrespect, enemies, fearful, integrity, low-self-esteem, retreat, scores, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, silence, women

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#12

“If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#13

“she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: love, safety, understanding

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#14

“Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: bad-karma, bargain-basement-prices, betrayers, cheaters, competition, dating, dating-advice, delusion, desperate, dignity, dogs, ego, empowerment, examples, exiting, eye-openers, false-confidence, false-happiness, forgetting, games, lack-of-value, lesson-in-life, letting-go, losing, love, low-self-esteem, marriages, men, mistakes, moving-on, observations, on-sale, pathetic, players, positive-women, regaining-control, relationships, revelation, sad, self-respect, self-worth, staying-positive, teenagers, the-good-life, truth, value, wasted-time, women

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#15

“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adventures, attitude, chasing, choices, class, competition, confidence, crossroads, dating, dignity, disconnecting, experiences, finding-happiness, freedom, goals, humility, journeys, joy, knowing-your-worth, lessons, letting-go, marriage, men, move-on, one-path, paths, positive-attitude, pride, quality, relationships, respect, right-path, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, strong-women, tests, the-future, understanding, unrequited-love, validation, value, warrior-women, white-path, winning, women, women-empowerment, your-worth

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#16

“The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angry-men, competition, confidence, envious, envy, gossipers, jealous-woman, jealous-women, jealousy, male-ego, self-abuse, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-loathing, self-love, vanity, women

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#17

“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, anxiety, authentic-self, balance, buddhism, careers, christianity, competition, confidence, dignity, emotional-balance, emotional-pain, false-confidence, false-righteousness, freedom, hidden-agendas, insecurities, letting-go, life-lessons, men, moving-on, need-for-control, need-to-be-right, need-to-compete, perspective, piety, relationships, role-model-for-kids, role-model-for-teenagers, satan-s-trick, seeing-others, seeing-yourself, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, spiritual-awakening, true-peace, women, worldliness, worry, wrong-reasons

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#18

“Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-better, beliefs, choices, courtesy, dating, dignity, feelings, freedom, gentleman, heaven, help-others, home, honor, integrity, lift-others, love, manners, quality, quality-men, relationships, respect-others, right-path, rise-higher, self-confidence, self-respect, self-worth, the-moon, warrior-women

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#19

“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two competing emotions—love and hate.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: attitude, be-positive, choices, confidence, consequences, dating-advice, emotions, empowering-women, feelings, frustration, love, mental-disorders, relationships, relationships-101, rise-above-it, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, stability, stable, stayingpositiveu-com, unrequited-love, unstability, weakness

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#20

“I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”
― Meryl Streep

tags: confidence, role-models, women

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#21

“She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: confidence, feminism, impostor-syndrome, women

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#22

“True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: advice, building-others-up, charity, communication, confidence, dignity, empowerment-for-women, experiences, family, friends, giving, insecurity, integrity, jealousy, joy, leadership, life-lessons, love, observations, relationships, restoration, self-love, self-worth, spiritual-growth, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, true-confidence, wisdom, women

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#23

“You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: breakups, divorce, empowering-women, finding-peace, freedom, marriage, men, peaceful-heart, proving-worth, relationship-problems, respect, self-confidence, self-respect, single-men, single-women, stayingpositiveu-com, value, women, worth

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#24

“The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears...otherwise.”
― Sarah MacLean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

tags: clothing

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#25

“A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.”
― Agu Jaachynma N.E.

tags: accomplishments, amazom, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiyson, entrepreneurship, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, improvement, inspiration, jaachynma, leadership, niche, passion, president, purpose, reading, relationship, revolution, risk-it, self-help, success, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper

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#26

“The Warrior Woman Code:

A confident woman doesn't beg a man to stay, cry if they don't or need to tear down other women to be loved. She knows her value. When the person she is meant to be with finds her, that person will know it also. He won't be confused by it. He will fight for her because without her he feels incomplete. She will always be foremost in his mind above anyone else. She doesn't have to scheme to keep or entice him. She is okay walking away from him because she doesn't want to be seen as a choice or a woman that has some potential. She demands to be seen as "the one." To settle for anything less than that is an admission of insecurity and lack of self love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, being-in-love, brutal-truth, confidence, courageous-women, dignity, gentlemen, happy-women, knights, mature-women, queen, rescuers, respect, self-confidence, stayingpositiveu-com, strength, the-one, the-right-person, true, true-love, valuable, value, valued, warrior-women, women-of-worth

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#27

“Be a woman of confidence, not cockiness.
Know your boundaries, set no limits.
Speak your kindness and turn your back to conformed groups.
The only way to be a woman of change in this world, is to walk what you talk and set your own soul free first.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: adversity, chronicillness, courage, crps-inspiration, crps-warrior, empowerment, fortitude, free-spirit, heal-yourself, healer, illness, inspirational, inspire, intutive, nikki-rowe, powerful, self-help, wild-women, women

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#28

“He was the worst kind of confident. Not only was he shamelessly aware of his appeal, he was so used to women throwing themselves at him that he regarded my cool demeanor as refreshing instead of an insult.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

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#29

“A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: bargain-basement-sales, boyfriends, coal, confidence, daughter-of-god, diamonds, dignity, empowering-women, exgirlfriends, giving-it-away, god-s-daughter, husband, know-your-worth, loving-yourself, queens, relationships-101, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, spouses, valuable, value, wife, worth

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#30

“True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: confidence, confident, different-perspective, empowering-women, self-love

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