Quotes About Defiance

The Pobble who has no toesHad once as many as we;When they said, "Some day you may lose them all"—He replied, "Fish fiddle-de-dee!"

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

Don't be a coward, and neither beg your Freedom nor forget your Rights and stand firm in front of tyranny.

Fight against your own fate!!

ignoble or rebellious, what does it matter? I'm more interested

Nope, I am destroyed. A shattered boat of a person. A broken window here, a lousy bell there. An old crappy dyke with half a brain leaking into a book. A drippy excrescence. A schmear.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

Let us spare nothing but our provisions. For they will be a testimonial when we are dead, that we were not subdued for want of necessaries; but that, according to our original resolution, we have preferred death before slavery.

I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.

I knew - perhaps I hoped - that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again.

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.

A quien me hace daño, le pago con la misma moneda. Soy el ocho de espadas, soy la avispa que pica, soy la serpiente oscura, soy el animal invulnerable que atraviesa el fuego y no se quema.

Fu in quell'occasione che mi convinsi che niente potesse fermarla, e che anzi ogni sua disobbedienza avesse sbocchi che per la meraviglia toglievano il fiato.

I would attach those of my revenge. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Finally she said something that I would never have had the courage to utter: "Look, Marcello tried in every possible way to buy me but no one is going to buy me.

Eu me considerava horrível e queria ser cada vez mais horrível. Já havia um tempo que, antes de ir para a escola, eu me empenhava diante do espelho para me vestir e me pentear como uma louca. Queria que as pessoas ficassem de má vontade do meu lado, exatamente como eu tentava mostrar que me sentia na companhia delas.

Every one of her movements said that to harm her would be pointless because, whatever happened, she would find a way of doing worse to you.

To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.