self-respect
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Both women had “a sense of their own inner worth, and that self-respect helped sustain them through difficulties that I never had to experience. Thus was America built.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She said Atkins' behaviour "totally eroded my self-respect and my self-esteem".
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
“She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away,” Witherspoon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
How do I keep my self-respect and continue to communicate with him?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
But it was the noble oldness of self-respect.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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