Quotes About Challenges

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

I told you, animals have a thing for me. It's the grown-ups I can't seem to win over.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.

I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They know them. They are them. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not- so-everyday challenges. And believe me, I love readers like you to bits. I've built my career one reader at a time. I owe a dept of gratitude to you all!

Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing—you think you have—then wham.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, Leo. Look at what you have now.

The best way out is always through,' Robert Frost says.

It was the women's movement that did it, told us we could be everything, but we can't. We can't be mothers and wives at the same time that we're professors. It just doesn't work. Someone always gets gypped.

they had talked about bad things happening to good people. Joyce hadn't accepted it then, any more than she was accepting it now.

Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.

foot—bending stiffly, Jack thought. Steve gave her a single

She hated rain. It came at the worst times, defied prediction, and made life messy.

There are always hurdles in life. Getting over them is how we move forward.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!

It's unrealistic to expect to be completely accepted and understood in life.

No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.

It's funny how life goes merrily along and then, boom, the past comes back and bites you in the butt.

meant to be." Nancy took one

there was no greater joy than having a child, no matter how much pain or how many problems they bring with them.

They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one.

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

Life might throw crap at you, but there's always a silver lining.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.