Assertion Quote by Barbara Deming

“Women are culturally conditioned to care for others, but not ourselves. We believe that having needs, feelings, ambitions, or thoughts of our own is…

— Rebecca Ann Parker

“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…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but for what lies within Himself.…

— James Burtschaell

We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because…

— Edith Stein

“Why was it not good for man to be alone? If it were only man's loneliness with which God was concerned, he might have…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

— Oscar Wilde

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort…

— Lysander Spooner

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how…

— Cesar Chavez

The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can…

— Jim Warner

Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and…

— Maya Tiwari

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

— Francesca M Cancian

Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing,…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green