Quotes About Challenges

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.

Beyond the personal discomfort, her larger point was that women aren't going to achieve social equality until some technological alternative is invented to save us from being the only sex expected to go through it. If men were the ones forced to endure this ordeal, obviously such a technological solution would long ago have been devised.

we find mates who bring out the worst in us: a partner is sent by the universe as a character test, to expose what you're really made of.

All in all, when I look at my dating life from the bigger perspective, it pretty much sucks. If it were a bar graph, and each guy were a different colored bar, and the side of the graph measured things like stupidity, lack of consideration, and overpowering lust, the colored bars of all the guys I've dated would crash through the top of the graph and rocket skyward like a testosterone-fueled rainbow.

I'm not a heroine, I just play heroines. Also psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives, and "on one memorable occasionâ "a singing rutabaga. It was never my ambition to utilize my extensive dramatic training by playing a musical vegetable. However, as my agent is so fond of pointing out, there are more actors in New York than there are people in most other cities. Translation: Beggars can't be choosers.

Aren't you going to answer it? Lopez asked. I'm afraid it's my mother, I said. She calls on Sundays? No, she calls whenever things are going badly.

Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.

Sometimes life is hard for a good reason. Sometimes narratives serve no purpose beyond keeping you from the life you want.

Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

Murphy's law is the only true dependable in my life most of the time.

He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn't be tested?

Just because you start the day off with nightmares doesn't mean you don't still have to go to work. Sometimes being a responsible grown-up sucked a lot.

Everyone thinks they want an extraordinary life, but you don't. When standing knee-deep in yet another disaster, ordinary begins to look very good.

When you live in a way that's too different from everyone else, you get grief about it. Is it fair? No, but it's still what happens.

Police work wasn't always simple, but it had clear-cut goals. You figured out who did it, or what did it, and you caught them, or killed them. Problem solved. When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. The

It is always hard to be tough when you have to look up to see someone's eyes. But I've been short all my life, and practice makes perfect.

If something scares you, no matter how small, you gotta face it because if you start failing on the small stuff eventually you'll fail on the big stuff.

anyone who ever said love conquers all was a fucking liar. Love is a good place to start, but it's a start, not an end.

Lauren Weisberger