#inferiority

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

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ↗

— Alan Kay

#artificial #artificial intelligence #complex #every #every time

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#even #inferiority #must #places #schools

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#enjoy #friends #inferiority #you #your

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#consider #deserving #families #female #first

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#enjoy #friends #inferiority #most #people

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inferiority-complex #education

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inferiority #equality

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#break #constantly #down #i #i am