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“First rule of self-defense is: Don't ask your attacker for validation.”
― Barbara Dee, Maybe He Just Likes You

“Be weary of people who accuse you of aggression when you're being assertive. ”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Get so far out of your comfort zone you can’t find your way back.”
― Paulette Dale Ph.D, "Did You Say Something, Susan?â€�: How Any Woman Can Gain Confidence with Assertive Communication

“Step so far outside of your comfort zone that you can’t find your way back.”
― Paulette Dale, Ph.D.

“I screamed as I dropped through the open air like a meteor, but it was a scream of exhilaration and not fear. The wind resisted, trying vainly to fight the unconquerable gravity, pushing against me, and twirling me in spirals like a rocket crashing to the earth.

Yes! The word echoed through my head as I sliced through the surface of the water. It was icy, colder than I'd feared, and yet the chill only added to the high.

I was proud of myself as I plunged deeper into the freezing black water. I hadn't had one moment of terror-just pure adrenaline. The fall wasn't scary at all. Where was the challenge?

That was when the current caught me.

I'd been so preoccupied with the size of the cliffs, by the obvious danger of their high, sheer faces, that I hadn't worried at all about the dark water waiting. I never dreamed that the true menace was lurking far below me, under the heaving surf.

It felt like the waves were fighting over me, jerking me back and forth between them as if determined to share by pulling me into halves. I knew the right way to avoid a riptide: swim parallel to the beach rather than struggling for the shore. But the knowledge did me little good when I didn't know which way the shore was.

I couldn't even tell which way the surface was.

The angry water was black in every direction; there was no brightness to direct me upward. Gravity was all-powerful when it competed with the air, but it had nothing on the waves- I couldn't feel a downward pull, a sinking in any direction. Just the battering of the current that flung me round and round like a rag doll.

I fought to keep my breath in, to keep my lips locked around my last store of oxygen.”
― Marcel Ray Duriez, Nevaeh Hard to Let Go

“Ladies, its not harsh to be assertive nor is it bad to be a boss. You have standards they just need to learn it, if they don't like it thats their loss.”
― Janna cachola

“Ray Parsons, you have no soul, you are a big bag of skin. You are a pile of bones. Every cell that has ever split inside of you was a waste of energy. Where you walk you leave a vacuum. Your existence should cease. - Alex Craft”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“True assertiveness isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about standing firmly in your truth, even when the world whispers doubt. Navigate your life with nerve, and you’ll never be overlooked again.”
― Linton J. Khor, Navigating with Nerve: Assertive Strategies for Life

“Assertiveness is the quiet power that transforms hesitation into action. When you navigate with nerve, you don’t just speak up—you redefine how the world listens.”
― Linton J. Khor, Navigating with Nerve: Assertive Strategies for Life