Quotes About Assertiveness

What's with her?" says the painter. "She's mad because she's a woman," Jon says. This is something I haven't heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. "I'm not mad because I'm a woman," I say. "I'm mad because you're an asshole.

If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.

The opposite of 'mean' is 'doormat

If you're going to be wrong, at least be hot.

Being a critical thinker starts with resisting the urge to be a pleaser.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care.

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

She could never respect a man who let her run over him...

Don't be a goose!

You need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils

I've never bothered about what people said.

But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

If Liana wanted to fight over Harlow, she was going to lose. Not that I liked him that way. That was to say, I wasn't sure how I felt about Harlow, but it damned sure wasn't up to her to tell me.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!