Quotes About Self-assertion

When someone forces you - he unkindly borrows- he does not, can not own you- Remember your body, spirit and heart are yours and only yours, and when you start to process your sexual abuse you will get it all back.

This is it, this is mine.

J' étais prétentieux, disait l'un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l'exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j'aimais et aimerai l'amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m'a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l'opinion d'autrui.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

I wasn't raised to acknowledge my own feelings, let alone stick up for myself like that.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us

You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.