Quotes About Self-assertion

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

Once You Know Your Worth.....You Will Stop Giving Out Discounts!

Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how.

No more moping around grieving! No more letting others push you around! No more playing the damned victim! Toughen up, Ava. And if the past bothers you so much, then figure it out.

Your a lying bastard who only cares about his own damned hide, so just leave me the hell alone! ~ Eve

Good healthy anger that is blocked can then seem like feral rage. But when you accept it and work with it, it becomes the ability to stand up for yourself. If you do not intentionally cultivate your best attention in your native state, then you will tend to recapitulate the worst attention your kindergarten teacher or parent gave—disapproval, criticism, scrutiny.

Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.

I get good marks at school, so I am not stupid. If I don't assert myself a bit, nobody else is going to. I have to assert myself by reasoned conversation, not sulks.

I don't want to be a PULSATING PIECE OF PROTOPLASM!

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.

Tell a witch to go, and she'll plant her feet on the ground and stay exactly where she is. Instead of doing as she's told, she'll take a knife to her arm and let her blood drip onto the ground, and in that way she will claim the earth for herself and for her daughters and for all the daughters who follow her. It is the future she's claiming, the right to be a woman who can do as she pleases.

Don't let them run over you, Nettie say. You got to let them know who got the upper hand.

If I can live with having this face, they can live with looking at it. That or they can get fucked.

My name's Cregg.

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.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

People will try to squeeze you into what they're used to, into what they think. Take advice, listen to counsel, but you may have to disappoint a few people to reach your destiny.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them. Don't you think? -I'm not letting them have my cake. That's my bloody cake and I'm eating it.

When a black man, whose destiny and identity have always been controlled by others, decides and states that he will control his own destiny and rejects the identity given to him by others, he is talking revolution." That threat to the

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.