Quotes About Assertiveness

if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.

If you don't go after what you want, you will never have it; If you don't ask, the answer is always no; If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place.

You couldn't be stabbed in the back if you faced your attackers.

Do you think you can have everything you want just by yelling louder, just by being stronger?

I know how to take care of myself." "No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don't know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That's conceit." She slapped the glass on the counter. "It's independence and capability." "To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.

I'm annoyed because he assumed I'd have dinner with him, then continued to assume I would even after I refused. It's a normal reaction.

CiCi Lennon lived life by her own rules. Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.

Excuse me, but I'm very tired of being interrupted and ordered around and spoken to like a recalicitrant eight-year-old. Then don't behave like one, Brian suggested.

Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

You're asking for it, Julie Lynne." "When

Look,I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this- she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume of dust rose up -thing for the night. I don't take in lodgers. And you'd probably kick a sick dog if he got in your way, she added evenly.

When a woman had eyes that big, that brown, that beautiful, she probably got whatever she wanted without saying a word.

Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.

When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.

Take a few minutes. No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to. Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

She was a grown woman, capable of making her own decisions. She wasn't stupid and she wasn't helpless.

I don't give a damn what they say about me, but nobody's going to talk behind their hands about you. Where the hell did you get that skirt? he exploded. Tarts U Us?

He dropped the cases with a bang that made her jump. "You talk too bloody much." With that, he gave her a yank. Off guard, she plowed into him, and managed no more than a quick oof before he shoved her chin up. And took her mouth like a man starving for it.

She smiled sweetly and yanked open the door. "Kiss my ass, Skimmerhorn." "I've thought of it," he murmured. "I have thought of it.

Put something on, Tyler ordered. And lock the doors. I'll check it out. No, you won't. She was already marching to her closet. We'll check it out. Nobody pushes me around, she said as she dragged on a sweater and pants. Nobody.

How can I get to be you when I grow up? Why, child, you just learn how to use your mean. We all got it, but not everybody knows how to use it constructive like.

Men." Morena cupped her chin in her hand. "So often a pain in the arse. Too often so bloody sure they know the best of things, so we have to take the time and trouble to show them they don't.

bargain I can give you." "We'll take it." Connor spoke up, shifted