Badass Lady Quotes

“Fight back, Laia. For Darin. For Izzi. For every Scholar this beast has abused. Fight. A scream bursts from me, and I claw at Marcus’s face, but a punch to my stomach takes the wind out of my lungs. I double over, retching, and his knee comer up into my forehead. The hallway spins, and I drop to my knees. Then I hear him laughting, a sadistic chuckle that stokes my defiance.

Sluggishly, I throw myself at his legs. It won’t be like before, like during the raid when I let that Mask drag me about my own house like some dead thing.

This time, I’ll fight. Tooth and nail, I’ll fight.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“This is not the end of me.
This is just one more enemy.”
― Jay Kristoff, LIFEL1K3

“God must think her a badass because he’d handed her this moment, and he didn’t dole out shit she couldn’t handle. That was a fact taught long ago by that miserable bitch called life.”
― Cristin Harber, Savage Secrets

“What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.”
― Cristin Harber, Live Wire

“Whatever you guys call it. Man up. Get your panties out of a wad. Put on your big boy shorts. Grow a set.”
― Cristin Harber, Winters Heat

“Basely indeed they may behave to us,
But they cannot debase us."

Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
Act 1, Scene 2”
― Friedrich Schiller

“I've never been much for tears, anyway.”
― Ed Brubaker , Velvet, Vol. 3: The Man Who Stole the World

“Out of the blue, one fine day, she just came and sat next to me and said; "...don't you even think of getting up from here, sit here and listen carefully to me, I don't know what's going on in your mind right now but we're going on our first date tomorrow." Its already been 5 years now, the time has changed her brash attitude into a meek personality and I realized the love of my life once used to be a badass girl.”
― Mohammed Israil

“I don't get off on flaunting my badassery; I'm a humble woman.”
― Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives