Quotes About Struggle

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.