"Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works."

Rebellion, Desire, Sexuality, Defiance, Power

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"Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works."

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"If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Rebellion, Identity, Humor, Defiance

"Rebellion is the very essence of meditation. Meditation means destroying the mind totally."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Rebellion, Transformation

"Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else, they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Rebellion, Genius, Sex, Rules, Freedom

"Question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Rebellion, Question, Status, Rules

"Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Rebellion, Humor, Expression, Tradition

"The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Rebellion, Pleasure, Courage, Freedom

"I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon."

Ally Carter, American Novelist

Rebellion, Determination, Humor, Adventure

"True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle, it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Rebellion, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Rebellion, Truth, Regret, Inspirational, Power

"Good. Illegal is always faster."

Eoin Colfer, Irish Author

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"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

Writing

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

Society

"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."

Aesthetics

"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."

Education

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

People

"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

Writing

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

Act

"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."

Progress

"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."

Wisdom

"She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ..."

Love