Quotes About Struggle

This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.

My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.