Quotes About Defiance

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

I refuse to dawn the velvet tether of meaningless expectations and follow you blindly.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs.

She is pleased to see that this healthy and happy young person shares some of her metaphysical defiance. It is an exoneration.

When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

My dear, I don't give a damn [Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara].

My dear, I don't give a damn.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Only rebellion flashes like lightning.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them?

I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible Look on me and be renewed

When the end of the world comes, it won't be the ones that cry who survive, but the ones who spit.

Una mujer capaz de placer puede convertirse en rebelde, puede traicionar a su dueño y señor, puede buscar lejos del lecho connyugal este placer, puede burlar el dominio del varón y darle una descendencia ilegítima para escarnio y estafa de la sacrosanta ley de la herencia.

History calls them a defeated people, but the Metis do not feel defeated, and that is what is important. Today, as in the old days, they play their fiddles, sing, dance, and tell their children the old stories. They work hard, as they have always done. They do not mind when they are called Metis, halfbreeds, mixed bloods, Canadians or bois-brules. They know who they are: 'Ka tip aim soot chic' -- the people who own themselves" (40).

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

I call death onto those who don't know a child when they see a child. Men who think they made the world out of clay and turned it into their safe place, men who think a woman wouldn't flip the universe over and flatten them beneath it. I have enough bullets for all of them.