Quotes About Assertiveness

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

I've reached the point where people text me randomly for favors, like, 'Hey can I pick your brain?' People I haven't talked to in years are asking for favors. It's like, 'Wow people really got some nerve.'

We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.

It's going to take me less time to wreck Ben Shapiro than it took me to curl my hair.

Every time I get catcalled, I fantasize about being able to do a wrestling move on someone.

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.

Old Sophia threw a potato at him. 'Without my fear, I'd be a simpleton,' She called after him. To the women on the platform she said, 'I consider that a potato well spent.

I'm not some blushing schoolgirl, stop that nonsense.

For Rebels, the ability to choose is so important that sometimes they make a choice—even when it's against their own self-interest or it's not what they prefer—just to reassure themselves that they can make that choice.

The harder the push, the greater the Rebel push-back. I laughed when a Rebel friend told me, 'No one can tell me to do anything. I recently got an email saying Please read in the subject line, and I immediately deleted it.

Además, para triunfar siempre en la vida no hace falta más que mucho tupé.

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if you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.

Sometimes "concern" is the foot someone jams in the door so you can't close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.

Hoyt?" Hoyt turned back around. "So there's no misunderstanding," Carlson said. "I don't believe a word you just said. We clear?" "Crystal," Hoyt said.

Ali gestured with her eyes for me to look right. I followed the gesture to Coach Bobby. "Don't you dare fight him," she said. "He challenged me," I said. "The bigger man steps away." "In the movies maybe. In places filled with pixie dust and Easter Bunnies and pretty fairies. But in real life, the man who steps away is considered a big-time wuss.

Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it.

I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.

I'm a person that, when I'm in the right mood, not any one of these girls can touch me.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

I'm gonna fall back, do my thing, but goddamn, I'm going to be a tough dude to deal with.