We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.
The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.
Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves.
It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?. . . A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.
You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept. . . responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.