Quotes About Struggle

The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150)

My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful." "That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain." (289)

This sent me into an inappropriate laughing fit. I wasn't allowed to get angry, and I couldn't cry, so I laughed - a lot. (114)

Just as Sarah Keeler had taught me that children die, Wendy taught me that you don't have to wade through the insanity; you can get off the bus. This scared me so much that a sweaty panic swept over me. From that moment on I knew it was possible to end my own life. (157)

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

This perpetual success of war and failure of peace is then said to be "the human condition"—but it is only the condition of humans under patriarchy. Under

Ooit zal iedereen onherroepelijk achter de tijd aan hollen tot zijn tong zijn schoenen hangt.

Experimenté algo todavía más cruel, más refinadamente cruel. En pleno invierno, cuando no hay luz nunca y el sol no aparece ni por asomo, me enviaron junto con otros presos a construir un muro con piedras tan pesadas que costaba levantarlas. Un día nos obligaban a construirlo y al día siguiente nos ordenaban que destruyéramos lo erigido; y así una y otra vez. La mayor tortura de todas las que he vivido consistía en la inutilidad de un trabajo sobrehumano.

I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

The women address the young men in these terms, now you understand that we have been fighting as much for you as for ourselves.

There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself.

La conscience de l'oppression n'est pas seulement une réaction (une lutte) contre l'oppression. C'est une totale réévaluation conceptuelle du monde social.

Aren't personal crises, loss, sadness, and periods of emotional darkness just part of human nature? Absolutely!

Cuando el mal es interior, el Diablo no deja de ser fiel ni en el mayor de los paraísos

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Self-hatred is a devastatingly difficult habit to break, especially when we are mostly unaware of it.

Stop the fantasy we need to be defending freedom, because we don't have freedom in our own country yet.

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

Ma questa è la storia della mia vita dissipata, che è fatta essenzialmente di oltraggi da vendicare e ferite da rimarginare

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .