Sigrid Undset Quotes

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.

... combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance.

The struggle is my life.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

I'm always down for a battle. I was born down.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.