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Quotes About Struggle

Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
~ Dorothy Parker
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
~ Clarence Darrow
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~ Lily Tomlin
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
~ Muhammad Ali
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
~ Slappy White
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
~ Emo Philips
I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don't get on with my real ladder.
~ Harry Hill
I can resist everything except temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
~ William Faulkner
Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.
~ Kathy Lette
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
~ Saint Augustine
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
~ Howard Nemerov
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Money attracts the females you want. Struggle attracts the woman you need.
~ Unknown
I saw a woman crying as she was buying tampons earlier. Must be going through a tough period in her life.
~ Unknown
I might be weak at heart but I'm not gonna let it tear me apart...
~ Unknown
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
~ Bella Abzug
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
~ Lucy Stone
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
~ Cyril Connolly
Most women are one man away from welfare.
~ Gloria Steinem
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
~ Cesare Pavese