Quotes About Adversity

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow