Quotes About Challenge

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren't funny.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

We'll climb with you and steal your women.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.