Gena Showalter Quotes

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side: one fights to find out which is the winning side.

Would you want your wife or your servant to read this book?

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

Women know how to scare other women.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

It's crazy that, as women, we are taught to be cute and nice and polite when we should learn to be less nice sometimes.

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

Beta males and females historically fare poorly in anchor positions, and whoever has the dominate, or more alpha, personality will always win out in spoken word count simply because they don't wait for an opening.

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

If it were up to me, I'd be fighting chumps.

I feel like big men don't like it when they're getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.