"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."

Defiance, Resistance, Imagery, Strength

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"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."

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"Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Defiance, Irony, Faith, Power

"Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation."Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Defiance, Humor, Conflict, Survival

"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me."

John Irving, American Novelist

Defiance, Judgment, Identity, Freedom

"I will not be my father's dog."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Defiance, Identity, Self, Rebellion

"I don't want to be the devil's bitch!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Defiance, Regret, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop."

Kresley Cole, American Author

Defiance, Limit, Independence, Resistance

"I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Defiance, Self-Respect, Anger, Choice

"When insulted by injustice, face it, stand up against it and demand your right and justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Defiance, Injustice, Stand, Demand, Rights

"If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Defiance, Expression, Impossibility, Anger

"You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Defiance, Strength, Identity, Humor

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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."

Independence

"Childhood is a wilderness."

Youth

"I wanted him to declare in shock how overlooked and underestimated I had been ever since I was a child. How lucky he felt to be the one to have discovered me, to have me. I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic."

Self-Worth

"But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was."

Truth

"Absolutely devout in her complete care of my body, she had only taught me to be weak and voiceless. But I had unlearned that lesson. Our enmeshment no longer felt to me like proof of love. I was no longer willing to permit this silencing. Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing-able-to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed her to help me, to take care of things for me-and to save me-but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."

Empowerment

"I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw."

Healing

"I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me."

Empowerment

"She told me that my rape was not my fault, that I should feel no shame, that " simple as it may sound " I hadn't caused it. No one causes rape but rapists. No one causes rape but rapists. No one causes rape but rapists. It was true. And it had not been obvious to me. And hearing it from someone else, a professional, someone who should know, helped me believe that soon I would believe it."

Healing

"When I felt strongly I would say it strongly."

Expression

"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."

Possibility