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Quotes About Defiance

Singing in a storm silences thunder's threats.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Baby, I'm not afraid. I've been to hell and back. I'm a free spirit, a wild child and a renegade.
~ Mishi McCoy
He'd used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.
~ Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
~ Cher
And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.
~ Alia Mamdouh
I do not take orders from women.""My men do not have a similar problem." Lada lifted a hand. The man fell, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest.
~ Kiersten White, Now I Rise
She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure.
~ Nikki Rowe
Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!
~ Hannah Witton
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
~ Anthony Liccione
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done
~ Marge Piercy
You won't shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
I'm willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.
~ Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
~ Henry James, Daisy Miller
Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, 'Oh Crap, She's Up!
~ Anonymous
My life. My choice. Live life only once. So to hell with the world
~ Nirmala Pandey
If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
~ Frank McCourt
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
~ Alexei Sayle
I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.
~ Megan Fox
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I will be dictated to by nobody. I'm the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don't like it, change the station.
~ Tyson Fury
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.
~ Nina Jacobson