Quotes About Self-assertion

I had to accept myself outside of her.

Ich liebte sie beide, daher gelang es mir nicht, mich selbst zu lieben, mich zu spüren, mich mit meinem Bedürfnis nach Leben zu behaupten, das die gleiche blinde und taube Kraft hatte wie ihres. So kam es mir vor.

Self-care means considering yourself a worthwhile person and presenting yourself as valuable, capable, and deserving. In other words, self-care seeks to redress an imbalance that develops when you don't take proper care of yourself, whether by inattention or by choice.

I'm just so tired of people questioning me and really tired of people not calling me Foodgod. It's my name. Jonathan is not my name.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they don't have to agree with me in general. I'm not here to be loved by everybody. I want to be. But I don't think it's humanly possible to be unanimously loved. But I think I've voiced it clearly that I'm not here to be a baby doll.

I'm here to fight; I'm not here to protect whether you think I'm a good person or not. I've given up on that.

The name given me by my mother was, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of Frederick Bailey.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others

Napoleon in his classical manner at one time declared: 'I have the right to answer any complaint against me with an eternal "this is what I am."' [He] stands aloof from the whole world and accepts conditions from no one.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.

I will not play a minor role in my own life (p. 271)

I am not your justification for existence.

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

I'm not fragile, " I teased and kissed him harder. I supposed my bruise would say otherwise, but I didn't want to be treated like I was going to shatter if someone touched me.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

This is my time, this is my hour, This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power. If it's my reign, then it's my shower, This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.

What i do in my personal time is about me. if other people dont agree, then it doesn't matter 'cos it's my opinion and that's what counts at the end of the day.

SmÄ›j se vÅ¡emu a nenech se ostatními vyvést z míry! Zdá se to sobecké, ale ve skute?nosti je to jediný lék proti sebelítosti.