Backlash Quotes

You get all these types of backlash for things you stand for.

— Breanna Stewart

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

— Kathy Acker

I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.

— Zoe Quinn

I get so much backlash in Hollywood.

— Jason Nash

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

— Magic Johnson

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

— Donovan McNabb

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

— Christine Todd Whitman

As long as I know in my heart that I did the right thing, I have to get past backlash from the…

— Young Kim

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with…

— Yoko Ono

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's…

— Naomi Wolf

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

— Kanye West

“the backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning.”

— Rebecca Solnit

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

— Ken Thompson

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

— Scotty McCreery

I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business…

— Leonard Peltier

I faced a lot of backlash when I spoke about being sexually harassed by Dibakar Banerjee. Not directly, but indirectly, I was…

— Payal Rohatgi

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash…

— Kim Deal

I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a…

— LeCrae

If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections…

— Edward Snowden

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and…

— Eva Marcille

Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa…

— Vivek Wadhwa

I think it's worrisome that Barack Obama actually contributed to the bifurcation of our society. I don't think that he made nearly…

— Mona Charen

Every time a militant Islamist terrorist shoots somebody up, what does Barack Obama do and the Democrats? They come out and they…

— Rush Limbaugh

In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians…

— Pierre Trudeau

I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see…

— Romola Garai

I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We…

— Miesha Tate

Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements…

— Joss Whedon

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that…

— Eddie Trunk

There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as…

— Lena Dunham

I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't…

— Michelle Alexander

It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being…

— Michelle Alexander

What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s…

— Stephen Marche

“Some of the leaders of the backlash said their name was an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already.” Maybe this was true at…

— David Litt

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are…

— Judith Lewis Herman

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

— Eli Roth

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

— Kat Graham

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

— Sara Bareilles

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's…

— Olivia Wilde