Quotes About Challenges

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's.

This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless, our chances of being alive together statistically nonexistent;

It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.

It was the first time many of the women had spent time in a bonafide workplace apart from a classroom, and they discovered what workplaces are and have been since the dawn of time: places where one is annoyed and thwarted and underpaid and interrupted and under appreciated.

Educators worried that they might encourage women to pursue math and science who would then be left high and dry. One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

Motherhood was the dividing line between brilliant women who stayed in the work and those who did not. For a woman with children, there were few resources to make a career feasible. The nation lost talent that the war had developed.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se afl? în jil?ul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, în familie, în noi în?ine.

It's hard to build large-scale, general-purpose quantum computers. I hope that we can cross that hurdle soon and build general-purpose quantum computers with hundreds or thousands of quantum bits. But the most important hurdle is in our own understanding. Unless we can understand how the world processes information at a quantum level, we will remain in the dark.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge.

You can't choose your family. Can't shoot 'em either.

Excrement happens.

In this town, a successful marriage is one that lasts longer than ice.

There isn't much a pan of warm Brownies and a glass of milk will fix. In less it's low grain prices. Or poverty. Or the national debt. I guess there are a few things, but nothing you have to worry about right this minute.

Life's funny. Sometimes it's your oyster, and sometimes you're it's bitch-slapped man-whore.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.

The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.