Quotes About Defiance

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.