Quotes About Struggle

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

I remember integrating the all-white Yazoo City High School after my Black school closed its doors. Teachers sprayed me with fire extinguishers, and I carried a stick to fend off attacks from fellow students.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

I'm female. I'm human. Sometimes I dominate and sometimes I'm dominated.

I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It's quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you're just another female artist.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Politics is a rough game, and sometimes as females we are taught that you have to play nice. Sometimes you can't play nice.

Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

It's kind of hard to retain the feminine. I have so much respect for the feminine, but it's actually something I have to work for.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

Chemo does its best to make you lose your femininity. You lose your hair. You lose your eyelashes. You lose your eyebrows.

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

I often feel failed by feminism.

Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

Festivals are quite difficult to me.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.