Quotes About Assertiveness

I'm a very independent woman.

I am a seriously independent woman and I want people to know that.

Asking "Why?" can work only where people feel free to speak their minds and the decision makers really listen. "Many employees who worked on the Fire Phone had serious doubts about it," concluded the journalist and author Brad Stone, who has written definitive histories of Amazon, "but no one, it seemed, had been brave or clever enough to take a stand and win an argument with their obstinate leader.

I want to be......A prince......Not a Princess! I don't want to be protected! When I'm a prince I'll do the protecting!

it took her years to realise she wasn't being slow and stupid, she leaned the hard way to shoehorn herself into debates, to force them to explain exactly what the hell they were talking about, to hold them to account.

was never told off for speaking her mind, although she was told off for swearing because she needed to develop her vocabulary (Yazz, say you find Marissa unpleasant or unlikeable rather than describing her as a shit-faced smelly bottom) and although she didn't always get what she wanted, if she argued her case strongly enough, she was in with a chance Amma wanted her daughter to be free, feminist and powerful

My life has been a struggle -- a struggle to have my own way where I felt I was in the right.

What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?

I ain't scared of you motherfuckers!

you can apologize, but don't ever be sorry!

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Facts are facts, whisper them or shout them.

As a child she had been taught it was rude to say no, unless she didn't mean it. If she was offered another piece of cake and she wanted it she was obliged to refuse out of politeness. And if she didn't want it she had to say yes, even if it choked her. It was involved but understandable.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

We are women, Clare. Life will hand us nothing, so sometimes we have to make life look up and acknowledge us by our deeds.

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.

It's so important to be your own biggest fan, even if you have to constantly convince people, including yourself, that you're worthy of their time and energy and ears.

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

What makes me feel most beautiful is feeling confident and sure of myself and knowing that I am worthy and enough and powerful.