Quotes About Assertiveness

Me Kate. You Tarzan?" "No." Curran bared his teeth at me. "In the first book, he grabs a lion by the tail and pulls it. Never gonna happen. First, an adult male lion weights five hundred pounds. Second, you grab my tail, I'll turn around and take your face off.

I waited. The moment you start speaking, you become less scary, and I had no intention of being less scary.

Flirt with me now, you sonovabitch! See if I'm impressed.

Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.

Either you can work on both, or you can keep thinking with your balls. It's your choice. Say 'pop.' Pop? That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass. If you stick it back up there again, there is nothing I can do about it. This is the only lecture you'll ever get from me. I headed for the door.

What are you going to wear?" "My badass face." "Good choice," he said.

Yes, I want your bullshit.

One of my biggest attributes, if you speak to my coaches from when I was a young lad, is that I've always believed in my own ability and been a confident young man.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

As a young woman, I just think there's something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.

When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

One of the biggest lessons that we hope to model for several folks, including some of the young women of color who come to me, is the value of understanding your worth, standing up, and demanding the best for yourself and not taking less.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I've just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that.

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.

I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.