Quotes About Self-assertion

At school I used to hang out with the girls - they looked after me but the boys would call me gay and I'd get into fights. They'd push me and I'd push them back. I don't condone violence, but you have to stick up for yourself because no one else will.

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

The system did not want me to make 'Go.' And I sort of stood up to the system and made the movie I wanted to make, and the fact that I did that and I'm proud of the movie means I'm really proud of myself when I look back on that.

There are people who will try to make you choose between who you are and who they want you to be. You have to watch out for those people.

I will not be bullied or dictated to. I'm not a child any more, and I'm prepared to make my own way and my own mistakes if necessary.

there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! Free! Body and soul free! She kept whispering.

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

Then Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. "Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

That's the trouble with women," she said. "We know what we oughtn't do, and yet we do it anyway. Nature has given us instincts, but when a man comes along, we hear only his voice, and not our own

Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.

Do you really need permission? Still waiting for that invitation to your life? No one is going to give it to you...only you can do that.

Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.

The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.

Over time, I've found the right tone of voice for these assertions, too. It's best to be insistent, but affable. Repeat yourself, but don't get shrill. Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own.

you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.

there are things you have to do for yourself, even if everyone else thinks you're crazy.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

I can't accept an identity others give me; I won't be your person.