Quotes About Strength

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

I need to have emotion to play. Emotion makes me hungry. I must prove every game that I am still strong.

Whoever endures abuse, assault, and imprisonment Without animosity, And who has forbearance as one's strength, As one's mighty army, I call a brahmin.

Being exhausted is much more than being tired.

A great writer is always like a foreigner in the language which he expresses himself, even if this is his native tongue. At the limit, he draws his strength from a mute and unknown minority that belongs only to him. He is a foreigner in his own language: he does not mix another language with his own language, he carves out a nonpreexistent foreign language within his own language. He makes the language itself scream, stutter, stammer, or murmur.

Safer to be feared than loved.

I'm the bitch who makes you a man.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.

I just want to live until I can't anymore, she said.

I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.

Isn't a smile a girl's best weapon?

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life.

Today I like my first ladies with a little bite.

Frank Curry thinks I'm a soft touch. Might be because I'm a woman. Might be because I'm a soft touch.

Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves... we've left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit.

Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction

Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.