She says that she bugged him for years to tell us, but he would always assert to her that we were white.
It contains a line in which Shakira asserts to her lover that "Next to her cheap silicon I look minimal/ That's why in front of your eyes I look minimal/ But you gotta know small things also count," which a critic commented was a "brave statement in these days of suspiciously ripe teenybop flesh peddlers".
Sasha and Coz had dubbed that feeling she got the "personal challenge," as in: taking the wallet was a way for Sasha to assert her toughness, her individuality.
As someone who always likes to assert her difference, her sense of humour and street cred will always be part of the act.
In this rant, she seems to assert that her choice to do pornography is an economic one and, the main point, that patriarchy is threatened by female sexuality.
From now on, Mrs. Clinton will be under continuous pressure to assert her independence from her husband and to fight her own fights.
In a famous 1956 case, a 9-year-old named Abby Hoffman, who had cut her hair short and was calling herself Ab in order to play hockey, went all the way to the Ontario Supreme Court to assert her right to play on a boys' team.
Later she confides: "I would like to get stronger, to assert myself, to harm her, Doctor".
A short stint on "The View" in 2007 showed Ms. O'Donnell's sometimes polarizing political views, causing some TV executives to assert that her stances could complicate any plans to sell a talk show to local TV stations this year.
The essential function of informed consent is to disclose all relevant considerations associated with the procedure, so as to allow the patient to assert her right to self-determination (autonomy).
The whole image is geared to assert her right to recognition by London society, which regarded her as a demimondaine.
