Quotes About Assertiveness

My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

I've got a cake rising," Eliza said. "I'm not leaving that for any man

face my truth This is not a resting bitch face This is a touch-me-and-die face

I felt so powerful that I wanted to go to Costco and wheel out a freezer on a dolly while waving around an old Safeway receipt, just because I knew I could. It's easy. I'm supposed to be so harmless and weak and afraid that no one pays attention. But those weeks of dye stripping and returning to my natural state created a phenomenon in which the world had literally become mine for the taking.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.

From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.

When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can."

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

Why are you so stubborn, you little fool? Some one talks business to you, and you hold up your nose. As if nobody in the world was cleverer than you!

When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

Who waits around for a compliment? Ask for it. Then take it. And when you do, you realize you knew the truth all along and you didn't need anybody else's opinion in the first place. No one has to tell you that you did a good job.

It is no use being your own master unless you can stand up for yourself.

The Key to a healthy no is to remember the yes that the no is making space for.

Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead