Quotes About Self-assertion

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn't have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn't say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I'm fighting for myself.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

El mexicano no quiere ser ni indio, ni español. Tampoco quiere descender de ellos. Los niega. Y no se afirma en tanto que mestizo, sino como abstracción: es un hombre. Se vuelve hijo de la nada. Él empieza en sí mismo.

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

Setting boundaries helps you reverse all that so you can stand up for yourself no matter what, be it to the people who love you the most or the ones who don't even know you.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else.

I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.

You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings...

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life. I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.

So much had been denied me, I reasoned. Why should I deny myself?

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

When a woman loses her resolve to speak up and stand firmly behind her position, she may be vulnerable to depression, anxiety, headaches, chronic anger, and bitterness.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.