Quotes About Defiance

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Women are natural anarchists...

Bad women celebrate themselves.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Wild women don't get the blues.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

All women are rebels.

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.