Quotes About Strength

women around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self-reliant—you can always be bettered by a stupid man with a gun.

Podría sobrevivir. Además, yo sabía, más que nadie, que peores cosas podrían suceder.

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises." "Oh,

but the real truth is I couldn't cope. I wasn't strong enough to take charge of it all and make it better.

Si tiene un ser amado, se sentirá con fuerzas para seguir adelante. Si no, yo me habría hundido ya muchas veces». Esa

You don't get to do that in Lee County, maybe not in the whole of Kentucky. Not if you're a woman. You play by their rules or they … well, they squash you like a bug.

She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she never felt entirely comfortable.

Alice had discovered how, for a woman at least, it was much easier to feel anger on behalf of someone you cared about, to access that cold burn, to want to make someone suffer if they had hurt someone you loved. Alice, it turned out, was no longer afraid.

If I'm honest, I probably only held it together myself because we couldn't all go to pieces.

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love.

There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth has gone and shifted under your feet. But you are never trapped, Alice. You hear me? There is always a way around.

she seemed to bounce through life like Tigger; the things that would have felled most people didn't seem to touch her. Or if she did fall, she bounced right back. She fell again, plastered on a smile, dusted herself down and kept going

Because we are a team. And a team sticks together." Izzy lifted her chin. "We are the Baileyville packhorse librarians and we stick together." Beth punched her lightly on the arm as her horse moved forward. "Well, goddamn to that.

Push yourself. Don't settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride.

always had.

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour

But I'm a single mother,' she'd said. 'And, worse, I don't do flirting. I wouldn't know how to flirt with someone if Louisa stood behind them holding up placards. And

Soy más fuerte de lo que aparento y preparo unos tés alucinantes. No hay muchas cosas que no arregle una buena taza de té.

away with the flat of her

Sigue adelante... no te conformes, simplemente vive.

In the meantime, put on some really great shoes with that jacket and a red lipstick and let Simon Stockwell know you're not to be messed with.

You...you once told me that the night in the maze didn't have to be the thing that defined me. You said I could choose what it was that defined me. Well, you don't have to let that...that chair define you

Just for carrying on, really. Sometimes, my darling girl, that's heroic in itself.

Stiu ca ti-a fost greu. Dar sa stii ca suntem tare mandri de tine. - Pentru ce? se mira ea. - Pentru simplul fapt ca n-ai abandonat. Uneori, fetito, si asta e un gest eroic.