Assertive Women Quotes

#1. [A]s often happens to assertive women, the men in the federation considered her abrasive, overbearing. They whispered privately that she was 'emotionally volatile' and did not have a 'second gear' in her public manner. Strong men are considered fiery, strong women are volatile.

Jere Longman

#2. It was inevitable that the poacher and the counterfeiter would bond, sharing as they did a blanket contempt for government, taxes, homosexuals, immigrants, minorities, gun laws, assertive women and honest work.

Carl Hiaasen

#3. I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

Taye Diggs

#4. As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

Sharon Stone

#5. When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

Jeremy Clarkson

#6. Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

Alicia Machado

#7. I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

John Keegan

#8. We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

Epictetus

#9. Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Peter Lindbergh

#11. To young women, black and white, Baker embodied the possibility of escaping the restrictions that defined conventional femininity. Authoritative yet unassuming, self-confident and assertive, forcing others to take her seriously simply by presuming that they would, Baker was a revelation.

Barbara Ransby

#12. Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use.

Jewel

#13. What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Barbara Kellerman

#14. What about the world do you most love?
The fact that I'm not here by myself.
-from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine

Margo Lanagan

#15. There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere

Carl Sandburg

#16. Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#18. He didn't want to be Tristan's friend; he wanted to be Tristan's everything.

Annabeth Albert