Quotes About Assertiveness

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. 'That's your course, world,' one says, 'mine is this.

to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass

You're not going to sniff my ass, are you? Like a dog?

Bartender, tell this man to vacate my person.

I won't be target practice in whatever little pissing contest you've got going on with him

Be reasonable? Fuck you. How's that for calm and reasonable?

Do I look like I need a fucking group hug?

Piss me off again and I'll rip you a new asshole and then fuck it. And that's just the foreplay.

You know I could crush you." "I know you won't." "Why, because I need to protect you?" "No," She poked him in the breastplate. "Because you gave me a pillow.

You two have a lot of balls coming here." Kynan gestured to Arik. "He does. I'm charmed. Nothing can hurt me. Or my balls.

Kiss me again without my permission, " she whispered against his lips, "and I'll geld you and sell your balls to a Ruthanian specialty meats shop. Understood?" "You won't do that," he whispered back. "You'd miss them too much." Sin snorted and made the blade disappear into her pocket as she stepped back. "Men are always overestimating the worth of their genitals." ~Sin to Con

But this spirited little human had him by the balls, and some small part of him liked it. Hell's bells, as Shade would say, Hell's fucking bells.

Because make no mistake, Serena. I do bite. ~Wraith

Have you had a chance to talk with your colleagues? Talk? We don't talk. They dictate. I tell them to fuck off.

she yelped. "What are you doing?" "Kissing your beautiful ass." ~Sin/Con

In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. "No more bullshit," he said against her lips. "I want you. I think I've always wanted you.

I don't try Sin. I do. Remember that.

What is up with you?" she snapped. "I have been flirting my ass off, and you act like I'm trying to sell you stewed maggots." "Hey," he said with a wave of his hand. "Don't knock stewed maggots. With enough spices and tomatoes––

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

After a while, her speech changed too, and she began to speak just like the other villagers. One thing she never learnt, however, was to stop and give way to the men she met on the road. Instead, she marched straight ahead with firm steps.

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

I'm not a feather to be tossed about.

Men come and go. The only thing a woman has that no one can take away is her opinion of herself.