Quotes About Struggle

She feels a sudden, indiscriminate anger, although she's unsure of its target - the Gods who toy with women like her and Parvati for their own amusement, this cruel city that begets so many poor people that it cannot take care of them, or at her own obtuseness.

Hope, thin as a thread, sharp as a fishing line, cut into David's heart." p. 79

Perhaps it is that, right now, she needs a man to help her navigate these murky waters that her thoughtless granddaughter has led them both into. Or perhaps it is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all,

What she and Serabai had built together, Viraf has destroyed. Women create, Bhima thinks, men destroy. The way of the world.

It is dark. But inside Bhima's heart, it is dawn.

time doesn't heal wounds at all,

what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper

And yet, despite the daily violence, Tehmina had marveled at the intimate way in which this tiny family huddled together around a small stove for their evening meals, had witnessed Parvati laughing as she lovingly combed her daughter's long hair, had registered the panicked look in Krishna's eyes when Parvati had taken ill with typhoid fever. Reality was complicated; Themina knew that. India had taught her that lesson, over and over again.

They had all worked so hard to forget what they'd left behind and to build a new life in America.

You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

possessed by the demon of mental afflictions, such as anger.

no matter where you go, due to karma you will find enemies and friends.

caught tightly in a marriage of afflictions and karma,

What use is this great demon for me?187

The voices of the oppressed will be heard from their rubbled tombs.

Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It's so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y'all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.

Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.

but he can't stop himself from loving her. Maybe it's 'cause he knows that in the end, she'll survive him. ... By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It's so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y'all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.

she still loved him, and she could feel herself dying from it, like a disease.

And here's what's really good," continued Belinda. "The publishing industry has a hard time processing Black characters unless we're suffering.