Harlan Ellison Quotes

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.

Don't treat me like a little girl.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

It is more honorable to walk in dignity than to ride in humiliation.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

That was Dad. Don't take any dirt from anybody.