Quotes About Resistance

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

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

One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind.

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

I am drawn towards the sort of characters who are in situations where they don't want to be in. But that's a staple in pretty much in any hero's journey because if you have non-reluctant protagonist then how is there any conflict?

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.