Quotes About Struggle

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.