Quotes About Assertiveness

Most important: Don't start trying to become the perfect woman/wife/mother figure in an effort to convince him that you're the woman he's looking for. This is the time for you to remember that you are a smart, independent, emotionally secure woman who should be asserting her own sense of identity.

es mejor provocar un estallido, por enorme que sea, que estar en deuda con el mundo por preservarte».

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

If you won't believe in yourself, who will?

You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

The one thing about me is, I don't care what people think. It all starts with yourself. I believe in myself. I love myself. So it's kind of like, they can shove it up their you - know - whats.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

It is difficult to win an argument, or even begin one, if you have not carefully articulated what you want (or do not) and need (or do not).

If you can bite, you generally don't have to.

STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK

Si dices «no» a tu jefe, a tu mujer o a tu madre cuando hay que decírselo, entonces te transformas en alguien que puede decir «no» cuando hay que decirlo. Por el contrario, si dices «sí» cuando tienes que decir «no», te transformas en alguien que solo puede decir «sí», incluso cuando manifiestamente toca decir lo contrario.

RULE 1 STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK LOBSTERS— AND TERRITORY

you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited.

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel's back.

Women's proclivity to say no, more than any other force, has shaped our evolution into the creative, industrious, upright, large-brained (competitive, aggressive, domineering) creatures that we are.

It's a good idea to tell the person you are confronting exactly what you would like them to do instead of what they have done or currently are doing.

Agreeable people will go along with whoever makes a suggestion, instead of insisting, at least sometimes, on their own way.

algunas personas siguen siendo objeto de abusos porque no responden a la agresión.