“Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.”
"its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him."
- Naomi Wolf
Awareness
"Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it."
- Naomi Wolf
Awareness
"Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together."
- Naomi Wolf
Awareness
"Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so."
- Naomi Wolf
Self-esteem
"A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem."
- Naomi Wolf
Empowerment
"One of the most challenging aspects of fitness is overcoming obstacles."
- Unknown
Overcoming Obstacles
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Overcoming Obstacles
"Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it."
- Ally Carter
Overcoming Obstacles
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
Overcoming Obstacles
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
Overcoming Obstacles