Quotes About Survival

Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.

Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people.

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.