“I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.”
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more”
“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”
“It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!”
“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
“I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.”