Quotes About Adversity

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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

a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.

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.

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.

Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?