pretty thoughts – no one can make you feel inferior…
what’s the quote?
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
who said it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
who was she?
The First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
pretty thoughts…
totally one of our very favorite quotes, because when you realize that it’s SO true, it’s really empowering.
jenna
i really LOVE this quote. in fact i always remind krissie of this one because she has the tendency to let other people’s negativity affect her. she’s so just genuinely sweet that she isn’t prepared when people are rude or attack her out of their own insecurities and she just gets really confused by it as if it’s her fault in some way. this quote is kinda like a really classy way to remind her to “dust her shoulda’s off”.
krissie
i’m supa dupa shy, so i kinda let people intimidate me more than i should. this quote always reminds me that i can CHOOSE to feel differently about things, and it reminds me that i don’t have to be a victim of anything.
cameron
this quote kind of inspired our “social network detox” haha. we deleted myspace and facebook, and we chose not to have comments on this website. nothing bad about those sites themselves…those sites are really awesome in theory! Myspace has done wonders for bands trying to make it and has totally changed the music industry, and we for sure still browse the music section all the time to find awesome new music! and Facebook is really great for people to KIT, and it’s used more for that which is totally cool. but it’s sad but true that a ton of negative people use comment forums and social networks as a way to lash out at other people :\ we just kinda felt like it was inviting ourselves to be attacked, and therefore consenting to people trying to make us feel inferior. we kept twitter and buzznet as ways to buzz about our site, but we definitely make the choice to only invite positive energy while we’re there. and not having comments on pretty princess isn’t because we don’t think it’s valid what other girls think …we totally do! we just love that we can keep our own site a place of pure positivity and it won’t ever be brought down by negative energy. it’s pretty cool how something someone said decades ago can still be inspiring to girls dealing with things that didn’t even exist back then!
ashlee
this quote always makes me think of how i interact with boys. like krissie said – i don’t have to be a victim of anything, so if a boy treats me bad – it’s only because i’m letting it him. so many girls stick around and try to understand or figure out why a boy won’t treat them better – well it’s not your job to figure it out, and while you stay in that mess and try to “fix him”, you’re missing that point – the only person you can change is yourself and that is where your power is in life. instead of trying to “make” someone treat me right, i choose to be worth how i want to be treated on my own, and walk away when im not being given that.
