Quotes About Struggle

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!

She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

When God wants to give you a miracle, He first gives you a problem.

It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.

For her last gasp was a story in itself.

DEAR LIGHT : you colored my life, and then you destroy me!

When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

When life's journey is wearisome, put on hope's shoes.

It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

a body betrayeda heart destroyeda mind in confusionand yet a womanis capable of taking painand transforming it into triumph

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.