Quotes About Assertiveness

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Bad women celebrate themselves.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

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

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Stop telling women to smile.

As a strong woman, there are things I would never put up with.