Quotes About Self-assertiveness

No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.

They had absolutely no sexual interest in me.

quieres. Frunces tu entrecejo, hablas duro y escondes tus dientes solo porque determinas hacerlo. Ríes si se te antoja o no ríes, porque tú y nadie más que tú así lo decides.

Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.

Gracias por tratar de hacerme sentir culpable, porque nunca más cambiaré de rumbo para complacer a otro.

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I think this should be called non-victim behavior. A surprise offer of bright cheeriness and self-confidence on people who were probably about to say negative things to you, in order to make you a non-victim and just a member of society.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

Then the feeling passed and I felt all right. I loved them both, but neither Abe nor my mother had any purchase on me. They could say what they liked, and I would love them still, but I would not change my behavior, would not change my mind.

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.

If I were a man, I'd definitely sleep with myself. In other words, if you tell me to go fuck myself, I take it as a compliment.—581 Ways To Kill Your Boss

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.

Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

The modern term is called "being a bitch" but the Indians call it "being in your power." I liked the sound of their beliefs immediately.

I am an independent person expressing myself.

The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.

For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over .

For years I have been saying Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

In order to makes these changes she had to make use of another vital aspect of self-esteem, "self-assertiveness," defined by Branden as "the willingness to stand up for myself, to be who I am openly, to treat myself with respect in all human encounters.