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Quotes About Rebellion

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
~ Amber Heard
Women are natural anarchists...
~ Kim Gordon
Bad women celebrate themselves.
~ Janice Mirikitani
What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.
~ Sinead O'Connor
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
~ Naomi Watts
I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.
~ Tom Sims
We'll climb with you and steal your women.
~ Todd Skinner
To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
~ Leonard Cohen
Wild women don't get the blues.
~ Ida Cox
Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain
~ e. e. cummings
Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.
~ Elton John
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
~ Émile Zola
Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.
~ Eminem
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
~ Gloria Steinem
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
~ Gloria Steinem
Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.
~ Ilona Andrews
I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.
~ James Ellroy
Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
~ Jo Brand
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
~ Katherine Heigl
When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.
~ Kim Hyesoon
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
~ Kreayshawn
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."
~ Lidia Yuknavitch