Quotes About Assertiveness

Always stand up for what you believe in. Always defend yourself and your beliefs.

No means so. Even if, at first, you thought you meant yes. Even if, at first, it was your fault. Even if, at first, you made yourself available.

There comes a point when the universe needs to get on your side or go fuck itself and the universe gets in line.

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want." "You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

Meg often slept with men she didn't want to sleep with: she didn't know how to say no. More precisely, she didn't know she was allowed to say no.

Sometimes, to live your life, you had to protect yourself against what other people might take from you.

You are whatever and whoever your self-confidence allows you to be

When you walk into a room, act as if you own the whole house, not just that room. Paste on a smile, even if it's fake, and never tug at your skirt or mess with your necklace

Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am. Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me

I'm not a damsel and there is no distress

I stomp toward her and point. I've SO had it with her. "That is SO not nice." You don't even talk like a queen." She glares at me. Nick raises an eyebrow at me. "You're a QUEEN?" I walk to the edge of the bed, stand just a few inches away from her. Power rolls off of her. "Okay, please refrain from your insidious comments, which are obviously geared to inflict harm upon my psyche. I do not appreciate it." Nick cracks up. "Well, you ARE the same Zara.

Attention, people talking about me: I. Am. Right. Here.

Will you please take him outside for some fresh air? Go across the street and buy him a chocolate bar.' She said it so formally, but instead of sounding polite, it sounded like Claire was really telling him to take Owen across the fucking street and get him a fucking chocolate bar, and, by the way, fuck you.

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

It all sounds like braggadocio, I suppose. But I can't help that. It's just the way I felt. Truth is truth, you know.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows)

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep.

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.