Quotes About Assertiveness

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Strong women leave big hickies.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.

A girl will stop chasing jerks once she realizes that she SHOULDN'T have to chase a guy and beg for his attention, love or a commitment.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say "no" to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. ~Stephen Covey

I'm a peacock Captain! You gotta let me fly!

It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

You sure you can handle big woman chat, pickney? You sure you ready for that journey? You think good before you answer. Because some people about to forget that me be the head bloodcloth nigger in here. Now, go peel two potato and don't draw me tongue out in this place.

What a day when a man tell me what to do.

The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

Hell, we got too much dignity in government now, what we need is some meanness.

He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits." "Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.

Well, I ain't sayin' it only to hear myself talk.

She is tough, like a Quiner woman. She works hard and she doesn't feel sorry for herself. At the same time she won't let someone else tell her what she should do with her life.

Serene silence about your intentions can be incredibly powerful when you are speaking with someone who is trying to control you.