Best Batgirl Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm playing 'chicken' with a kid called 'Robin.' I don't know why he's showing off. I don't know why I'm going along with it. I don't even know where we're going. It could be a robbery. Or prison break. A gang war. Or free donuts at Lenny's. He sees that Bat-signal in the sky and takes off. Like a bird out of Hell. And he just expects me to follow him. And I do.”

Dc Comics Robin Batgirl Barbara Gordon Batgirl Year One

Book:Batgirl: Year One

Source: Batgirl: Year One

“I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon Batgirl Year One

Book:Batgirl: Year One

Source: Batgirl: Year One

“You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.”

Dc Comics Oracle Birds Of Prey Batgirl Barbara Gordon Dick Grayson

Book:Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

Source: Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

“Wait for a hero? Barbara Joan Gordon -- Be your own damn hero.”

Strong Women Strong Female Characters Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon

Book:Batgirl (2011-2016) #25

Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #25

“We used to chase each other like this. Two kids flirting in a way only a handful of people on Earth could ever match. He with his acrobatics, and me with my ballet.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon Nightwing Dick Grayson

Book:Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“You know at the end of the day, when you close the door and you're all alone... And you strip off your armor and lower your guard and peel away the mask... When there's nobody watching and nothing to hide... And you no longer need to be strong or clever or pretty or brave... There's just you. That's it. That's the soul.”

Dc Comics Oracle Batgirl Barbara Gordon

Book:Batgirl (2000-2006) #45

Source: Batgirl (2000-2006) #45

“I struck out at the people who love me. Because I wanted understanding more than pity. Because I wanted respect more than comfort.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon

Book:Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“And he was the first crush I ever had that wasn't a scientist-- it's a different thing altogether. It made me a little peeved at myself, to be honest. Half the girls in Gotham City would have been happy just touching his jacket. I didn't want it to happen. But I'm human, all right? And for a while, we were better than kids with a crush. We were actually friends.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon Nightwing Dick Grayson

Book:Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“All my life, I've had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn't need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I'll send their eyes back blackened.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon

Book:Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“You listen to me. You try to tell her that she failed that man... And you're not welcome here anymore.”

Batman Dc Comics Oracle Batgirl Barbara Gordon Cassandra Cain

Book:Batgirl (2000-2006) #3

Source: Batgirl (2000-2006) #3

“If Batgirl’s origin sounds like standard comic book fare, it was. But it was her motivations that set Batgirl apart from her sister heroines of the ’60s.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Silver Age

Book:Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines

Source: Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines

“Yeah, I was asleep, but it's okay. I was having my favorite dream. I have it all the time. I was dancing. I was beautiful. I was dancing.”

Dc Comics Oracle Batgirl Barbara Gordon

Book:The Brave and the Bold (2007-) #33

Source: The Brave and the Bold (2007-) #33

“He was cocky. It would have been easy not to like him. But he was also kind, and that excused much. Kind, and...a little bit sad, somehow. I didn't understand that about him back then. But we were just kids.”

Dc Comics Batgirl Barbara Gordon Nightwing Dick Grayson

Book:Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!”

Funny Libraries Librarians Puns Batgirl One Liners

Author:Karl Kesel

“Y'know, a lot of the time it's like you Batguys want me to hold onto the past because you can't get over it. Understand— I have. I have a new life now. One I like — one that fulfills me. It's not the same as the one I had before, but it's good. Maybe even better.”

Oracle Birds Of Prey Batgirl Barbara Gordon Nightwing Dick Grayson

Book:Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

Source: Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8

“I promise loyalty. I promise secrecy. And I promise courage.”

Batman Batgirl Barbara Gordon Batgirl Year One

Book:Batgirl: Year One

Source: Batgirl: Year One

“I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one.”

Batman Batgirl Barbara Gordon Batgirl Year One

Book:Batgirl: Year One

Source: Batgirl: Year One

“I'm not Barbara Gordon. I have to keep remembering that. Tonight, I'm not Barbara. Tonight, I'm not the Police Commissioner's daughter. Tonight, I'm the one who pored over the details of the confidential police and reports when her dad wasn't looking. I'm the one who recognized the vintage costumes you wear. Tonight? Tonight, I'm Batgirl.”

Batman Batgirl Barbara Gordon

Author:Gail Simone

“Do you think I like sending out agents to do my dirty work? Do you think I get my thrills living vicariously? Do you think I don't know hurt? Do you think I don't know hurt? You don't know hurt, sister! I can't get off the mat to take down Lynx on my own-- but you can, and by God, you will--”

Oracle Birds Of Prey Batgirl Barbara Gordon Black Canary

Book:Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey 1

Source: Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey 1

“You've learned to control your pain, but you've never let go of it. When you can do that, you'll be sensei in no time. Your journey is just beginning.”

Oracle Birds Of Prey Batgirl Black Canary

Book:Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Vol. 1: Who is Oracle?

Source: Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Vol. 1: Who is Oracle?

“It's only the end if you want it to be.”

Batgirl

Author:Batgirl

“After trauma, any way that a person can find to pick themselves up and become a new and better version of themselves makes them stronger.”

Trauma Batgirl

Book:Batgirl, Vol. 8: The Joker War

Source: Batgirl, Vol. 8: The Joker War