J. K. Rowling Quotes

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

School-houses are the republican line of fortifications

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

A girl, whether in the industry or out of it, has to protect herself.

Train your girls, if someone is touching you the wrong way, slap him.

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you." Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me." "Then why am I going first?" "So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?" "So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

New York and I are not punching bags. You hit us and we will hit back.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

I wear heels, and it's not for a fashion statement - it's ammunition.

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.

When I'm inside the cage, nobody will take anything away from me.

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.