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Quotes About Assertiveness

They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.
~ Karin Slaughter
Charlie turned off the engine. She asked, "Can you make the walk?" "Yes." Charlie didn't move. "I don't want to be a jerk—" "Be a jerk." "If you fall in front of those bitches, they'll laugh
~ Karin Slaughter
I've got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.
~ Karin Slaughter
No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.
~ Joan Rivers
[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.
~ Lee Friedlander
I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.
~ Linda Sunshine
Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
~ Mae West
I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
~ Manisha Koirala
I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?
~ Maureen O'Hara
I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.
~ Muhammad Ali
I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.
~ Tom Brady
I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it. If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.
~ Sophia Amoruso
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
~ Ziggy Marley
Out here a man settles his own problems.
~ John Wayne
I'm the stuff men are made of!
~ John Wayne
I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.
~ Leven Rambin
I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
~ Chief Joseph
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
~ Confucius
Four inch nails is more like it!
~ Courtney Love
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
~ Ann Coulter
A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.
~ Ayn Rand
Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.
~ Lisa McMann