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Quotes About Struggle

Women's style is so hard for me. I just know what I think looks good.
~ Pusha T
Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.
~ Frederick Lenz
There are not many good roles for women.
~ Eva Green
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.
~ Frederick Lenz
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
~ Patricia McConnell
Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
~ Gillian Flynn
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.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.
~ Mila Kunis
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
~ David Bailey
Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.
~ Deborah Ann Woll
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!
~ Denise Levertov
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
~ Diana Trilling
Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.
~ Eliza Lynn Linton
I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.
~ Elizabeth Arden
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.
~ Emily Saliers
I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.
~ Eric Jacobson
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
~ Erica Jong
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
~ Erica Jong
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
~ Erica Jong
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
~ Euripides