Quotes About Assertiveness

Calm down, Horus said. Don't tell me to calm down! Bast frowned. I didn't. Talking to him! I pointed at my forehead.

Don't talk to my sister that way. Nico said. His voice quivered, but I was impressed that he had the guts to say anything at all. — Percy

If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver

Stand your ground! Stheno yelled. I've got free samples!

Sorry if that offends your sense of right and wrong. Oh wait. No, I'm not.

Her face had an imperious, timeless quality that I'd learned to recognize. It meant I'm a goddess; deal with it.

When you don't know whom you're trying to please, you cave in to three things: criticism (because you are concerned about what others will think of you), competition (because you worry about whether somebody else is getting ahead of you), and conflict (because you're threatened when anyone disagrees with you).

maybe I don't want to eat bloody coriander!' She came to an abrupt halt, whiplashing the baby in the pushchair. She turned round and said, 'Well, maybe I do,' and glared at him for the longest time, wishing she had the woodcutting axe with her, the axe that

She placed a protective hand on her bag. It contained two envelopes stuffed with twenties -- five thousand pounds in all -- that she'd just removed from her account at Yorkshire Bank. She would like to see someone trying to snatch it from her -- she was looking forward to beating them to a pulp with her bare hands. No point in having weight, Tracy reasoned, if you weren't prepared to throw it around.

Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe. - Noelle

I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others [...]

I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself. It doesn't matter to me, and you may think me unwomanly if you like.

There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

Let her have her dangerous will.

Flora hated the phrase "correct me if I'm wrong." In her experience, people only said it when they knew they were right.

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have no time to be a wet-nurse for a bantling.' To my surprise, he did not flush or draw away in embarrassment. He grinned and winked at me, as if to say I could suckle him any time, and to my horror I felt myself grow red.

it's this: the squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease. One of the most important things you must learn to do in your career is ask—in the right way. You must ask for money, responsibility, opportunities, title changes, benefits, bonuses, and perks. And don't

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

This is her power move: letting an alpha male keep talking and waiting patiently as he self-destructs.

Be self-confident. Don't let others take the bread

I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away!

If he pushed too often or too hard, she was very capable of, at the very least, calling her boss or her invisible partner and having Max put on ice somewhere while she went on working. The girl twelve years ago couldn't have done that, but this woman certainly could. And would.

I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me.

You are the favor factor. Which means the person with favor doesn't chase the one that needs the favor. If you know who you are then you better carry yourself like you're the one who's holding all the cards. If he knows what's good for him, he will run after you. Because you multiple whatever he has in concentrated form. You are the favor factor so stop distributing your favor to someone who has not factored a covenant into the equation.