Quotes About Struggle

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.

There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.