Quotes About Assertiveness

No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot. I will tell him that I can never understand such a thing, that maudlin self-pity does not move directly at my heart; I will not make a fool of myself by encouraging him to mock me. "I understand, yes," she said.

Now I will be heard, and when I choose to be heard, the lowest legions of hell may turn in vain to silence me and when I choose to speak not all the winds of earth can drown my voice.

If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.

I have decided to ask you to please go away." "All right," he said. "You asked me." "Please will you go away?" "No," he said. I could not think of anything further to say.

Even if you don't believe me, it's no skin off my back. I don't have to brag to you!

But—I don't want to knock anyone. Even if you think I do, what do I care?

To make a long story short, you know quite well that when a woman puts her foot down, she wins.

There is a way to represent one's cause and in doing so to treat the audience in such a cool and condescending manner that they are bound to notice one is not doing it to please them. The principle should always be not to make concessions to those who don't have anything to give but who have everything to gain from us. We can wait until they are begging on their knees even if it takes a very long time.

Women are dangerous, they stop at nothing and they never let go.

Since Mrs Pargeter had always favoured pulling bushes up by the roots rather than beating about them, she again asked directly what his problem was or who was making his life difficult

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

El día que una mujer pueda no amar con su debilidad sino con su fuerza, no escapar de sí misma sino encontrarse, no humillarse sino afirmarse, ese día el amor será para ella, como para el hombre, fuente de vida y no un peligro mortal.

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is Look good during confrontations. Or if it isn't, it should be.

One thing: I can damn well wear lipstick.

It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that'.

I also know that standing up for yourself can be hard. But you have to do it. Sam Roxton

I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!

I´m going to make my life work for me. I´m not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It´s my life, wich means wrestling i to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying, Take that, life!

Women are warlike too.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.