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Quotes About Defiance

My ego has been trampled on more times than an old cigarette butt in the gutter
~ Virginie Despentes
Mais, à ce moment précis, je me suis sentie femme, salement femme, comme je ne l'avais jamais senti, comme je ne l'ai plus jamais senti. Défendre ma propre peau ne me permettait pas de blesser un homme.
~ Virginie Despentes
Elles arrivent à hauteur de la camionnette. Du coin de l'Å"il, Nadine capte que Manu sourit méchamment. Elle prend sa main dans la sienne, elle a honte de son geste en même temps qu'elle le fait. Sauf que Manu mélange tout de suite ses doigts aux siens, et tient sa paume serrée à en faire péter les articulations. Nouées, crispées l'une dans l'autre. Invincibles, même si elles n'ont pas une seule chance.
~ Virginie Despentes
I am not sweet I am not lovable I am not a middle-class girl. I get hormonal highs that send me into peaks of aggression. If I didn't come from the world of punk rock, I would be ashamed of what I am. But I do come from the world of punk rock, and I am proud of not fitting in.
~ Virginie Despentes
Ça aime les auteurs déjantés, les artistes maudits et les putes dégénérées... Ça apprécie la décadence classée par ordre alphabétique.
~ Virginie Despentes
That's the trouble with a Trueheart House. It doesn't believe in being cautious when it comes to defeating evil.
~ Unknown
Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?
~ Vivian Vande Velde
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.
~ Vivien Leigh
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Haha come fight us now Napoleon
~ Vladimir Putin
Injustice in the end produces independence.
~ Voltaire
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
~ Voltaire
The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
and I heard a thing coming flop-flop up the stairs like an eel, and squealing. It went to all the doors. It could not get in where I was. I would have sent it through the universe like a flash of fire. There
~ W.B. Yeats
Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!
~ W.C. Fields
On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.
~ Larry Correia
Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
~ Hans Frank
I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.
~ Amanda Lindhout
He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It's now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.
~ kiki
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
~ Unknown
I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
~ Samuel Butler
He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.
~ S?seki Natsume
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
~ Nancy Astor