Quotes about Defiance
I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
- Virginia Woolf
He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.
- Virginia Woolf
Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.
- Virginia Woolf
Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
- Charles Dickens
Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
- Charles Dickens
My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.
- Charles Dickens
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.
- Charles Dickens
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
- Charles Dickens
David replied to the Philistine, "You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
- Greg Laurie
Women are powerful and dangerous.
- Audre Lorde
We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud.
- Gloria Steinem
Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, 'Oh Crap, She's Up!
- Anonymous