Self-Respect

After 279 pages of Wendy Shalit's Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to be Good, I still don't know what the author means exactly when she upholds "modesty" in female attire.

Leora Tanenbaum: What Not to Wear: Wendy Shalit Goes Deep Into Your Closet 2008

She has Self-Respect and demands that anyone who is going to sample her wares is going to have to give.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

But some anticipate recent fads such as “journaling” (“On Keeping a Notebook”) and blaming misbehavior on “low self-esteem” (“On Self-Respect”), though words like “journaling” and “low self-esteem” would no doubt make Didion gag.

2007 August 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

But some anticipate recent fads such as “journaling” (“On Keeping a Notebook”) and blaming misbehavior on “low self-esteem” (“On Self-Respect”), though words like “journaling” and “low self-esteem” would no doubt make Didion gag.

Essays for People Who Like Nora Ephron’s ‘I Feed Bad About My Neck’ « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

The 1961 essay "On Self-Respect" introduces the brooding persona, delicate in sensibility but roused by her ancestors 'stoicism to be tough, convincing us of her separateness through a paradoxical rapport with her audience.

The Unclosed Circle Kerr, Sarah 2007

However, he soon became disenchanted with the Congress and its indecisive ways when he brings up the issue of eliminating caste discrimination The Self-Respect Movement, founded by him in 1925, carried on a vigorous and ceaseless propaganda against ridiculous and harmful superstitions, traditions, customs and habits.

EV Ramasami Naicker - India's Iconoclastic Reformer Shantanud 2007

Wendi Wan, a producer from the "Dr. Phil" show, alerted my publisher that the daytime pop psychologist wanted to design a program around my new book, "Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good."

Too Modest for TV: 2007

"Self-Respect" in your mind and letting these express themselves in your outward bearing.

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

The first is Humanity or Benevolence; the second is Uprighteness of Mind; the third is Self-Respect, Self-Control or "Proper Feeling"; only number four is Wisdom; and the fifth is Sincerity or Good Faith.

Two Thousand Years of Democracy 1941

Obama should fulfull his promises and threaten to veto the earmark-bloated spending bill Self-Respect Watch: Congressman admits feeling like a "freshman at the senior prom" kranky kritter: Folks, the objections about earmarks go directly to process ....

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