Quotes About Assertiveness

It's such a cliché, but it's true: you must set boundaries. Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not.

Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me—just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves.

Who is tougher than me? No one.

ucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself

But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again.

Basking in the attention of the people who gathered around me, I didn't just feel like a backpacking expert. I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.

No is golden. No is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

No is golden. No is the kind of power the good witch wields.

Self-confidence means living out what you already know to be true.

Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.

you must set boundaries. Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.

When in doubt, wear red. It always stands out in a room full of people.

Capricorn: "If you don't like me, that's your problem not mine."

Most Scorpios don't know how to say no to a second drink.

I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.

The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." It would follow, then, that no one can make you feel anything without your consent.

I once heard someone say that it's no so much about finding your voice. It's about having the courage to use it.

Never say no to yourself. Make the other guy say no.

All the assertiveness training and communication skills in the world can't prevent a relationship from becoming fertile ground for silence and stonewalling, or for anger and frustration, or for just plain hard times. No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human. We can influence the other person through our words and silence, but we can never control the outcome. That said, what we can

Moving in this direction requires us to clarify—to ourselves and others—what's important to us. Having an authentic voice means that: We can openly share competence as well as problems and vulnerability. We can warm things up and calm them down. We can listen and ask questions that allow us to truly know the other person and to gather information about anything that may affect us. We can say what we think and feel, state differences, and allow the

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When a woman loses her resolve to speak up and stand firmly behind her position, she may be vulnerable to depression, anxiety, headaches, chronic anger, and bitterness.

We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won't speak to us at all.