Quotes About Strength

I AM LEERY of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident ultimately have their way in our lives. But the point is that we are not helpless either. Courage is the strength to recognize both realities.

Wisdom is prudent strength.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.

She just had to hang in there, she told herself

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

I'd eat right through pain—even to the point of throwing up

merely as struggling human beings.

and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

There are no new pains.

Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.