Quotes About Defiance

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This

T]he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you.

La curiosità è insubordinazione allo stato puro.

La curiosité, disait-elle, est la forme la plus pure de l'insoumission.

And that memorable day was the beginning of our detailing our long list of debts to the Islamic Republic: parties, eating ice cream in public, falling in love, holding hands, wearing lipstick, laughing in public and reading Lolita in Tehran.

It should be clear by now that when I talk about books, I'm not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.

Remember all that talk of yours about how the first lesson in fighting tyranny is to do your own thing and satisfy your own conscience?

They come from a long line of defiant heroines, including Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre. These women create the main complications of the plot, through their refusal to comply. They are more complicated than the later, more obviously revolutionary, heroines of the twentieth century, because they make no claims to be radical.

we'll shove it up their ass.

They chanted and stomped and swore to never leave

Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifference to what is urgently important to others.

Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on.

You've built the fire up way too hot," I told her. "Go to hell, Leah, just go straight, directly to hell.

In my time I've learned surprising things about the powers stacked against us before we're born. But the way of my people is to go on using the words they've always given us: Ignorant bastard. Shit happens.

My grandmother had no use for anything in the line of boys or men. Any of them that stands up to make his water, was how she put it. Bad news for me.

If big Daddy-O was going to blow his stack over a witch doctor, here's one cat that wasn't going to miss it.

He gave Blanche the cheeky "Hey, girl" greeting that teenage white boys working up to being full-fledged rednecks give grown black women in the South. Blanche hissed some broken Swahili and Yoruba phrases she'd picked up at the Freedom Library in Harlem and told the boy it was a curse that would render his penis as slim and sticky as a lizard's tongue. The look on his face and the way he clutched his crotch lifted her spirits considerably.

Blanche stared at Emmeline's door for a few moments, bristling with the desire to knock and trying to conquer her natural inclination to defy the voice of authority. It was one of the reasons she had not lasted in the waitressing, telephone sales, clerking, and typing jobs she'd tried over the years.

the bathroom was the boy I can beat up.

I have the heart of a man, not of a woman, and I am not afraid of anything…

I have the heart of a man, not of a woman, and I am not afraid of anything… –ELIZABETH I, Queen of England

contravention

Caligula ne demiÅŸti? Oderint dum meduant. Bizden korktuklar? sürece, b?rak?n bizden nefret etsinler.

The world eventually sends out a mean-ass Patrol Boy to slow your progress and show you who's boss. You reading this have undoubtedly met yours (or will); I met mine, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's got my address. He's a mean guy, a Bad Lieutenant, the sworn enemy of goofery, fuckery, pride, ambition, loud music, and all things nineteen.