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Quotes About Assertiveness

Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?
~ Maegan Lynn Moores, Wilde Ride
You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.
~ Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep
That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?""Guess so.""I hope you showed it who is boss.""Yeah, I peed on it.
~ Stacey Marie Brown
I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on.
~ Lois Greiman, Unplugged
I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
Yo! Hold my poodle!
~ Shawn Wayans
You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.
~ Rachel Spangler, Close to Home
Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
Nobody touches my ding dongs!
~ Ray S. Jones
Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception.
~ Tom Upton, Vanished
I don't care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want.
~ Ida Løkås
He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.
~ Eloisa James, The Duke Is Mine
I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.
~ Rachel Caine, Last Breath
There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.
~ Mary Daly
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.
~ Sherry Argov
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
~ Barbara Sher
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.
~ Jill Johnston
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
~ Al MacInnis
Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!
~ Bjork
If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.
~ Hiroko Sakai
Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives