Quotes About Self-assertion

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

Women need to give themselves permission to be a bitch as often as necessary. Being nice doesn't move mountains.

Roby thought he should get "dibs" on Natalia because he claimed her first, that's what he was arguing. I'm not convinced it works that way. Natalia has dibs on herself, that's what I think.

Individuals with the Autonomy Survival Style have had to face the dilemma of choosing between themselves or their parents. To submit to their parents leaves them feeling invaded, controlled, and crushed. On the other hand, their loving feelings and the need to maintain the attachment relationship keep them from overtly challenging parents.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

I can, too, be a bitch sometimes

Niemand gibt dir etwas. Du musst es dir nehmen. (Aus dem Film Departed)

It had gone far enough, this passiveness, this acceptance, absorbing the designs of others - benign, or otherwise. It was not what he was, or would allow himself to be, under the nine heavens. Perhaps he could declare that, with two swords in his hands.

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge. I have matches. We ride at dawn.

You are not defined by other people's opinion of who you should be or what you should do as a person. You determine that, not anyone else.

Decide who you are for yourself. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is so much more to life than following others.' And so much more to life than what you experience right now.

Decide who you are for yourself. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is so much more to life than following others.' And so much more to life than what you're experiencing right now.

Take charge of your life, get rid of all the things that don't make you feel true to yourself.

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... "Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

By taking control of my sexuality, I felt like I'd finally taken control of my life.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them.

I'm willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.