Quotes About Rising Up Against Oppression

#1. Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

Marisha Pessl

#2. We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Marilyn Johnson

#3. It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand
having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

M.M. Kaye

#4. Women are walking around on the streets. From her calf and the hem of her skirt to her hip, from her hair to the high heels on her feet, a young woman is freedom. Especially when you look at her from afar.

Hwang Sok-yong

#5. Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

Margaret Atwood

#6. They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

Ursula Andress