Quotes About Struggle

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Life - with or without softener- is hard

The happy family is a myth for many.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

My mother always wants me to put me on a diet.