"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on assertiveness
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."

Wycherley, William on women   

"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."

Yeats, William Butler on women
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"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

Lewis, Beca on understanding
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"Understanding brings control."

Bonewitz on understanding
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"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."

Howard, Vernon on understanding
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"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days."

Lao-Tzu on understanding
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"Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked."

Thatcher, Margaret on women
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"If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity."

Sand, George on women
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Millet, Kate on women
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"In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."

Hoffman, Dustin on adversity   

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Esar, Evan on women
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on women
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"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."

Goldman, Emma on women
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"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart."

Irving, Washington on women
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"Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds."

Kempton, Sally on women
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"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

Luce, Clare Boothe on women
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"I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?"

Madonna on women
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"To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man."

Meir, Golda on women
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"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."

Antisthenes on envy
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faults
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"Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on envy
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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

Gracian, Baltasar on envy
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"Envy eats nothing, but its own heart."

Proverb, German on envy
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"Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him."

Ovid on envy
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"Envy is honors foe."

Motto on envy   

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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