“I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.”

— E.M. Forster

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E.M. Forster 200

English novelist 1879–1970

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“They are like me, I tell myself. And in that way I protect myself against them. And in that way I protect myself against myself.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Ellos también son como yo, me digo. Y así me defiendo de ellos. Y así me defiendo de mí.
Voces (1943)

“I know I'm sane
I don't give a care for the crown or the shield
I will not protect you or happily yield
To the one who makes me come undone”

Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician

"Monarch"
Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999)

“No foreign sky protected me,
no stranger's wing shielded my face.
I stand as witness to the common lot,
survivor of that time, that place.
— 1961”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Translated in Poems of Akhmatova (1973) by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
No, not under a foreign heavenly-cope, and
Not canopied by foreign wings
I was with my people in those hours,
There where, unhappily, my people were.
Translated by D. M. Thomas
No, not under the vault of another sky,
not under the shelter of other wings.
I was with my people then,
there where my people were doomed to be.
Translator unknown.
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987)

“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”

John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer

Source: The Sagan Diary

“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”

Philip Freneau (1752–1832) American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor

To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.