Quotes About Perseverance

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.

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

Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!

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

There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

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.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

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