Quotes About Assertiveness

That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.

Sephie finding three boys picking on me on the playground and pushing them down, fierce as an Amazon.

Miranda, there is nothing I would rather do that fuck you. She flinched at his bluntness and Ethan's frown darkened. Don't recoil from that word. It is exactly what I want. I don't want to make love to you like a gentleman. I want to pound into you. I want to tie you down and make you beg. I want to lick every inch of your body until you're so wet with need that I almost slide out of you on every damned stroke.

Then we'll make a deal, you and me. We'll do and say exactly what we mean. And to hell with what anyone thinks about it. If we want to smoke, we'll smoke, if we want to swear, we'll swear. How does that sound?

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.

I like it when I strut.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.

In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people.