Quotes About Self-assertion

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

My goal is the same as it has always been - to stand up for myself and take back my voice after being bullied and intimidated by President Trump and his minions.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

only inasmuch as the injury had been secret, she was doing herself justice as best she could.

as if she were still the endangered School girl who had to please everyone to feel safe. Never saying "No" to others meant constantly saying "No" to herself.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

I've been taught through life experience that, like, I'd better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don't, I will be defined.

I don't have a nickname and I'm not looking for one.

You have to stick up for yourself,he told me. But it's bad to throw rocks, I said. I know, he said. You're smarter than me, you'll find something better than rocks.

Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.

She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.

Until I learned to accept I was a victim, but I didn't have to stay one. In

No, obviously what strength was all along was the ability to say "Fuck off" to the lot of it, to turn your back on all the suffering and contemplate, unmolested, your own desires above all.

It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.

No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own; those innumerable books by men about women in the British Museum are a proof of it. The Suffrage campaign was no doubt to blame. It must have roused in men an extraordinary desire for self-assertion; it must have made them lay an emphasis upon their own sex and its characteristics which they would not have troubled to think about had they not been challenged