Quotes About Assertiveness

Show your confidence. Show you're not afraid. Go to restaurants. Go shopping.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

But I will not be ignored. The soul that lives inside this body will not be ignored. I am here to stay.

THE PHRASE "PLEASE REFRAIN FROM" SHOULD BE FOREVER REPLACED WITH "BITCH, PLEASE!

Part of your job as a businessperson and diplomat is to get what you need and to not take it too personally.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!

Rose had enough of standing back and doing nothing. Of being told to sit still and behave and go to work and wear this and say that, of being told what to do by men, and boys, and her mother, and teachers, and bosses, and boyfriends, by the Doctor and the Nestene and everyone in between. Above her, the world was ending. In front of her, the Doctor was dying. At her feet, Mickey was blubbing. Well, to hell with that.

I look at her and ask, flat out, "What's up?" Girl talk, of course, for, Back off my man, biotch.

If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.

Hey!" he yelled at the bear. "Hey you dumb stupid bastard! Why don't you come suck on my dick!

I thought you two liked each other," she huffed. "I have no patience for mate-whipped males," Kiyo sneered. "And I have no patience for dogs that disrespect me.

Is this Niamh woman as …" He gestured to Rose with a vague wave of his hand. "As awesome as me?" Rose answered, glaring at him. "Yeah, she is." "That wasn't the word I was thinking of.

If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.

So you do enjoy my lovemaking?" She lifted an eyebrow. "If you can't tell that, sir, you are blind and deaf and probably stupid." If he'd been a peacock, he would have been strutting about, displaying his feathers.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

If something is yours by right, then fight for it or shut up.

I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

So early in life, I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise

I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I will not play a minor role in my own life (p. 271)

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.