#inferior

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #feel #give #inferior

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#inferiority #outpouring

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#bound #children #fact #forgiven #grow

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#because #exalted #fool #gold #his

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#complex #else #emotion #everything #fear

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. ↗

— John Woolman

#creatures #good #good man #great #his

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#inferior #intellects #little #may #sign

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#does #feels #i #inferior #make