Quotes About Struggle

She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.

Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.

Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.

Even the broken will fight

If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men.

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.

The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!