Caroline B. Cooney Quotes

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

Competition is not going to kill us.

People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.

I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me.

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

They don't want you to win.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

You stand up to bullies. Don't shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.