Quote by Steven Stosny

“Self-defense isn’t a one-stop shop that will make her invincible, but I’m hoping I can light a fire inside her to maybe explore this…

— Aly Martinez

“ Don't care, he reminded himself. Because if he didn't care she couldn't hurt him.”

— Anne Osterlund

“If I don't defend for myself, who will?”

— Wesley T. Calaway

“I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself—that way one does not really live.”

— Bette Davis

“If you say that you'd never hurt anybody, you're lack of emphaty and full of bullshit.”

— Toba Beta

“I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.”

— Jay Woodman

“The ablity to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

— Susan Mallery

“Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save…

— Dan Wells

“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever…

— Naomi Novik

“Do I seem one who will not defend myself? You are her father, so I will make myself clear. Any who seek her harm…

— Danielle Monsch

“I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and…

— Alice Hoffman