Quotes About Assertiveness

No person should ever be a doormat. Love says, "I love you too much to let you treat me this way. It is not good for you or me.

You have the authority to correct them when necessary, so don't let anyone disregard what you say. —Titus 2:15

I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.

She smiled the infinitely kind smile of a woman who will not do what you ask.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

Hypatia:...I don't want to be good; and I don't want to be bad: I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad: I want to be an active verb. Lord Summerhays: An active verb? Oh, I see.An active verb signifies to be, to do or to suffer. Hypatia: Just so; how clever of you! I want to be; I want to do; and I'm game to suffer if it costs that. But stick here doing nothing but being good and nice and ladylike I simply won't.

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.

Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.

The message I want to send out is that women are sexy.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

I can't really wonder what people think, as long as I do my thing.

Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no.

I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.

The only power you have is the word no.