In Call Mi Sister Carol she asserts herself alongside Jamaica's rude boy culture, demanding recognition for her own contribution to society, as a mother, musician and educator.
For nearly 50 years now, her work has been defined by what she calls "triangulation," which is a way of explaining how she asserts herself in a piece of writing — to tell a reader where she is.
"Britney" is Ms. Spears's version of the career move Janet Jackson made when she asserted herself on "Control".
Clutching the hand of a smitten male fan -- and then kissing it -- during that song, she asserted herself as a stellar love-woman.
In her speech, she asserted herself as the champion of the vulnerable: of "those cries of silent distress, those poor broken lives, those humiliated families, ravaged by poverty and inequity".
The first time she asserted herself, she says, was when she was 17 and told her parents she didn't want to go to university, she wanted to go to drama school and act.
Party grandees did not take her seriously, but she asserted herself with a flair worthy of Indian melodramas.
In the second half of the opera, when she began to come into her own, she definitely asserted herself as a singer with potential.
"A large share of female voters recognize how she has asserted herself in her party and beyond that in Europe for a long time," he said.
She has asserted herself in the choice of Congress candidates, and has vetoed many pro-Kesri applicants.As significant is the new pro-reform slant in the party's election manifesto.
Now, with national elections only months away, Ms. Mayawati has emerged as the most important low-caste politician in India's history, and she is asserting herself as a rainbow coalition leader, a woman whom all Indians can trust to be their prime minister one day.
