Quotes About Challenges

Just when she started to feel she was with a man who could carry his weight, he confessed that he was nuts and had to work on his issues by trotting over the mountains. Boy, could she pick 'em. Whatever saint was in charge of her love life was terrible at it.

Problem solvers, doers. Life hasn't always been kind to them, but it's made them stronger, more determined. Opportunity isn't given, it must be made.

In this day and age of racial tension, gender fluidity, and political polarization, how do you most define yourself?

It's not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.

Teenagers," he said into the silence, his smile knowing. "Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em." "But you can ground them, if they still live with you," she said, and silently added, Even when they're in their twenties.

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

Mary wondered when law got so complicated that even the lawyers needed lawyers.

Motherhood was not for the weak.

She had lived long enough to learn that families didn't dissolve or reconfigure neatly, but left debris lying everywhere, and it was human debris. And sometimes, like tonight, she felt as if she were tripping over the bodies.

Can you imagine what it's like to be a legal malpractice lawyer? The clients are the worst! They're all lawyers!

school tomorrow.

But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

I used to think mothers-in-law are difficult the world over, but on that day I came to understand that they're simply unknowable.

I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.

But that's the thing about mental illness; there's no such thing as a cookie-cutter diagnosis. We're all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.

Nobody told you that wen you became a parent, you became a child again; it was early bedtimes and grilled cheese sandwiches for all. Every date night was a negotiation, every invitation that you actually had the desire or energy to accept became a strategic maneuver that may or may not work out after all.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.

It's so hard for the strongest among us to stay sane, isn't it, under the conditions we have come to think of as normal?

Once a woman has a husband and child, her time, her heart, her desires never quite belong to her again. A blessing some days, a burden others, like all the other gifts that life brings.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.

Mako show. Not always, but definitely during the workday. He'd bluster in, full of big ideas, or complaints, or ranting about this or that. He'd take up all her energy, without even meaning to.