Quotes About Assertiveness

I fucking think they fucking belong the fuck to me, I can swear too, mate, I'm English. We swear without fear. The C-word? We say that too: cunt cunt cunty cunt cuntcunt. Go on, now. Get lost, you loudmouthed cunt.

Get a spoonful of this, motherfuckers. Harper

I like that. I'm all for being an empowered female badass, but I still need someone to lift heavy things off the top closet shelf.

If you allow it, people will run your life. They'll tell you what to do, where to go, how to dress, and how to spend your money. It's good to get free from addictions, free from anxiety, and free from depression, but one of the greatest freedoms is to get free from controlling people.

When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,' he'd said, 'never play yourself down. It's unprofessional

When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,' he'd said, 'never play yourself down.

My mother warned me about short, determined women," he said at last, clearing his throat. "Said they're are meaner than any other kind.

Count it, Marcie." She managed to get the first finger out. She was pretty sure she was losing her mind, because she chose her middle finger.

You're being too nice about all this," she said. "You're right about that," he said, surprising her. "If you'd stop being so pitiful, I could drop the whole chivalry thing and stare at your tits.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty –- I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.