Quotes About Assertiveness

Never let them dim your light

Don't let people squeeze you into their mold. Be confident in who God made you to be.

Don't let other people's opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.

What can I do for you, Detective?' he said cheerily, smiling and nodding at Bailey. What was I, chopped liver? I had a badge too. Maybe I should've shown it to him. Maybe I should've shown him my gun too.

Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It's adult swim.

Are Luisa and Valerie back?" "This afternoon, commercial flight. Luisa wanted to know, and I quote, 'whose nutsack she needs to gargle' to score a seat on the jet next time." "Woman has a way with words.

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs.

Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

The best contraceptive is the word "no" repeated frequently.

The best contraceptive is the word no — repeated frequently.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher

and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

She was a mighty woman, tall as he was, and built on aggressive lines, like a battleship, with a square squat head to which the iron-grey hair was bound as tight as possible in an intricate mystery of tiny plaits. He

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness.

Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to any­one who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up and be like 'Hey babe, what's your sign?' and I'll just point to my shirt." Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. "Of course they might think you're pointing to your boobs in a 'have at 'em, big boy' kind of way.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

You can require respect, ask for tolerance but you cannot demand validation

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.