(88 quotes found)
“The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.”
Sigmund Freud
“Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall”
Alfred Adler
“Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.”
Persian Proverb
“The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.”
“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see”
Samuel Johnson
“When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“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
“The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;”
Chinese Proverbs
“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority”
“Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected”
Marilyn French
