Quotes About Self-assertion

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

If You Don't Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

While my body might say, "I'm small and vulnerable, " my hair warns, "DON'T MESS WITH ME.

I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

I'm Julia Malone and nobody has the patent on me!

Don't let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo!

Expressing Your Views and Feelings Your goal should be to express your views and feelings to your own satisfaction. You hope that the other person will understand what you are saying, and perhaps be moved by it, but you can't count on that. What you can do is say, as well as you can, what is important for you to say about your views, intentions, contributions, feelings, and identity issues. You can share your story.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

There are many people who are always waiting for the next thing to react against, to feel annoyed or disturbed about—and it never takes long before they find it. "This is an outrage," they say. "How dare you…." "I resent this." They are addicted to upset and anger as others are to a drug. Through reacting against this or that they assert and strengthen their feeling of self.

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.

People think they are individuals because they use the word I so often, Patrick commented.

Es cierto que uno quizás sea más excéntrico - mañoso - autista que los demás, pero uno está en su derecho.

I do not want to waste time in proving my identity to people.

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.