“I think I'm going to do everything in my power for at least, like the next three years, not to fall in love.”— Sam Levinson, Cassie Howard, Sydney Sweeney, imdb.com
“I can't resist the taste of your lips, it’s making me sick right now. And I've had enough of wanting your love if you never give it up.”— Charlotte Lawrence, open.spotify.com
“Their power is a poison. Find the courage to resist. Join us. The match has already been lit. Watch for the signs. Wait for the signal. Be ready. The phoenix will rise.”— Erica Beeney, Rupert Wyatt, Rafe, Jonathan Majors, imdb.com
“I find the more obvious vices the easiest to resist.”— Steven Knight, C.I. Chester Campbell, Sam Neill, imdb.com
“When we resist or avoid looking at ourselves, the universe will hold up a mirror, making denial impossible.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“It’s the micro that makes the macro. I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalized, accepted--even welcomed-- misogyny. We are not outraged because someone grabbed our as…”— Alyssa Milano, twitter.com
“Did you hear about the group lobbying against Viagra? They were met with stiff resistance.”— WiFilip, reddit.com
“I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”— Meg Rosoff, amazon.com
“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“You must stand up for everyone’s right to be who they are— otherwise you may find one day that it is you who is singled out, who is seen as different, and then there will be no one to defend you.”— Sandi Toksvig, amazon.com
“It is very very easy to seep into despair, but if we seep into despair we do the devil's work. Do you understand that? You do the work of your enemies.”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“You can not fight corporations individual to individual, you do it as a collective movement.”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back! We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”— Elizabeth Warren, time.com
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could ne…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com