Quotes About Self-assertion

You can't stop my voice cause You don't own my life but Do what you want (with my body)

People want me to do things, be a certain way and that's not going to happen. I'm going to be Albert Belle.

You can say anything you want to say. I'm just Bill Foley.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

We must fight to earn our right to all we would claim for ourselves. This is the struggle of all life. There are those who would deny us this right – they feel it belongs to them alone. Today, we shall assert otherwise.

When it comes to creativity, or my artistry, when it comes to how I wear my hair and what I'm dressing like, some things I'm going to fight for; and it's really about picking the battles, but usually I'm not backing down.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

I want something for myself, Grania was thinking, staring at her folded and clenched hands.

The way to instill social values, writes historian Susan G. Cole, is to eroticize them. Images that turn women into objects or eroticize the degradation of women have arisen to counterbalance women's recent self-assertion. They are welcome and necessary because the sexes have come too close for the comfort of the powerful [...]

One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

Because you're tired of being an obedient daughter and fiancée. Tired of always doing what everyone else expects of you, never calling the shots yourself.

Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.

It was the day I was going to take hold of my life. I would once and for all take back what was rightfully mine: my freedom, my dignity and my pride.

Oh don't let people walk all over you Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.

He wanted to prove to the world that he was able to achieve something, that he could stand out from the crowd even when he felt the world was telling him he couldn't.

Stop hiding here and making things worse. Deal with it head-on. Calmly. Stand up for yourself. Talk to people. Be an adult. Then come here and just enjoy feeding the ducks.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

If you don't like being a doormat, then get off the floor. AL-ANON

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

Men who feel themselves strong enough to decide for themselves what is best for themselves, and not just to be told what is best for others.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'