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Quotes About Struggle

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.
~ Euripides
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
~ Eve Ensler
I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.
~ Eve Hewson
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.
~ Fay Weldon
A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.
~ Frederick Lenz
I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.
~ Frederick Lenz
The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Some women just fight to fight. I fight to win.
~ Gabrielle Reece
If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them "too much effort.
~ Gena Showalter
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.
~ George Meyer
Women are well on the road to equality but we haven't arrived yet.
~ Gloria Feldt
God knows (She knows) that women try.
~ Gloria Steinem
It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
~ Helen Reddy
Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
~ Henry Rollins
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
~ Hillary Clinton
Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.
~ Hillary Clinton
I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.
~ Hillary Clinton
It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.
~ Hope Solo
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
~ Horace Greeley
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.
~ Ishmael Reed
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
~ J. G. Holland