Quotes About Self-assertion

Somehow her getting naked breaks the tension. Her transformation is palpable: She seems easier, more confident; her body is how she asserts control.

freedom is not given... it's taken.

I found my inner bitch and ran with her.

Our job isn't to turn our bulb down to make the person next to us more comfortable. Our job is to turn our bulb up and give the next person permission to do the same. Warren did that.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I didn't want people to know me as a victim.

I am not going to play the victim.

I don't like to play the victim.

I don't want to be a victim.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

I'm not a victim.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.

I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning.

you're going to have to face this. You can't let other people decide your life for you...Other people's judgement doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't.

Eventually you have to stop letting people define you and start defining yourself. It's a lesson I'm both teaching and learning. Name yourself. Claim yourself. Classroom Constitution, Article Twelve.

You're not the powerless, scared little girl anymore, I told myself. Nobody's going to whip you with a dowel rod and put you in your room. It's time to grow a backbone.

Is my name V? No... Then why would I follow U?

I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.

I'd give up being a bitch, but I'm not a quitter.

Take notes you lookin at a bad bi....