Quotes About Defiance

You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they … well, they squash you like a bug.

veiled insubordination that he

You shitbag,' I yelled. 'I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result.

You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?' Margery said finally. 'Ain't the hurt. It's that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it doesn't matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them, period. It's when you realize they can always shut you up with a fist. Just like that.' ... 'Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder.

I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result.

think Devon sensed that we were going to duke it out, and gave no quarter. In this context, we were both true to our natures. He could have given in, I could have looked the other way. Somehow, I didn't think that was going to happen. The battle was joined.

she thinks she's going to force me out of the race like this, she has another thing coming to her.

Bad guys are supposed to lose. I change that. I win

It's not easy for a rebel to remain a rebel all his life. It's exhausting

The Authority/subversion foundation

black hair slicked but rebellious, white sideburns shaggy and mal-trimmed ("let's hear it for skunk stripes")

Sleep. The ultimate resistance

I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

So, basically if we keep trying to save the country and maybe the world from a bunch of murderous assholes with outer space weapons, then we're the bad guys?" "In a nutshell." "Then, hey ... let's be bad guys.

When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak.

Yippie ki-yay and all that shit" - Desdemona Fox

I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in. I don't believe in rules and I don't believe in fair fights. You want a fair fight, join a boxing club. I also don't believe in dying for my country. I have a kind of General Patton take on that: I think the other guy should die for his.

What I do know is that there was a way out for me. I know that I don't feel stupid anymore. I don't believe I'm defective anymore. I don't hurt the way I hurt that day in my room with that bottle of pills anymore. There was for me, and there is for you, a way to, as the philosopher Judith Butler wrote, "work the trap that one is inevitably in." Normal must be resisted if you are ever going to live your life, as who you are, fully, in all your complexity.

Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We don't owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals it all. And every time we have to say 'yes sir' and 'no sir,' he steals some more. But we can survive it, if we stay loud in here," she said, throwing a fist hard against her breast.

Instead of sitting down at lunch counters, Wallace vowed to stand in the entranceway to keep blacks out of the University of Alabama.

Am I a dog," he roared, "that you should come at me with a stick?

This was how you did it. This was how your spirit stayed strong. This was how you looked death in the eye and defied it.

a minute!" I felt that queasy sensation in my stomach that you always get when they dismiss you. Like someone sucking out your insides through your back. They have to say it three times to get rid of you, if you're keen on sticking around. Usually you're not. But this time I remained where I was, two glowing eyes in an angry fug of boiling smoke. "Do you know what you are asking