Quotes About Self-assertion

We should teach our girls that snapping is ok, instead of waiting for someone else to break them.

She snapped, they said. Couldn't take it anymore. Reached her breaking point. We should teach our girls that snapping is okay instead of waiting for someone else to break them.

There are two crucial values without which human life is simply inconceivable. One is security, a measure of security, feeling safe. The other is freedom, ability to self-assert, to do what you really would like to do and so on. They are both necessary. Security without freedom is slavery. Freedom without security is complete chaos where you are lost, abandoned, you don't know what to do.

It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, "Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Not the king of anyone else. I call my self a King because indeed I am a King of I myself only. -DeShawn Yeldell / MillYentei

When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self. She didn't expect that hunky Ruthanna groupie to understand. "Your shoes look like they could kill a person, Ruthanna," AnnieLee said, giggling. Ruthanna kicked out a leg to show off a pointy-toed stiletto. "They're killing me," she said. Then she brushed a red-gold curl away from her cheek and said, "I like you.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

I'm not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the woman you made me. Elena is at war.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

It's about time you did your own thing and stopped just listening to whatever Queen Margot says.

The modern term is called "being a bitch" but the Indians call it "being in your power." I liked the sound of their beliefs immediately.

domination originates in a transformation of the relationship between self and other. Briefly stated, domination and submission result from a breakdown of the necessary tension between self-assertion and mutual recognition that allows self and other to meet as sovereign equals.

This little tiny whisper of intuition answered. A voice from within spoke up. "It's okay to not be left alone," it said. "The moment people leave you alone, it will be because you stopped standing up for yourself.

But the fact that for the first time in her life she had managed to convince herself of her rights might embolden her to assert her wishes again.

If there's one thing I've learned in all this, it's that you have to stand up for yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you, least of all the people you ought to be able to depend on." - Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

Now I do whatever I want.

I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Oh, talking about private school, man, I had cornrows, and when I picked 'em out, certain people that didn't look like me always wanted to touch 'em. One time, I just said, 'Yo, hell no.'

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

The first stage is n-o—no. No! If that doesn't work, move up to g-o— go. Go! Get lost! That will usually work, but if it doesn't, then you have to get tough, and you say F.O.! F.O. is bound to do the trick