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Quotes About Strength

Whatever you've imagined your limits of strength and daring to be, the strongest woman in the world can inspire you to go beyond them. That's what champions are for.
~ Gloria Steinem
Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.
~ Gloria Steinem
The idea that women are "our own worst enemies" forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted to. When
~ Gloria Steinem
Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
~ Gloria Steinem
But many of women's body scars have a very different context, and thus an emotional power all their own. Stretch marks and Cesarean incisions from giving birth are very different from accident, war, and fight scars. They evoke courage without violence, strength without cruelty, and even so, they're far more likely to be worn with diffidence than bragging. That gives them a moving, bittersweet power, like seeing a room where a very emotional event in our lives once took place.
~ Gloria Steinem
She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive.
~ Gloria Steinem
Let this message go forth from Houston and spread all over this land. There is a new force, a new understanding, a new sisterhood against all injustice that has been born here. We will not be divided and defeated again!"14
~ Gloria Steinem
For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind," in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive.
~ Gloria Steinem
Ng??i có quy?n lá»±c chi?m l?y danh t?, còn ng??i y?u th? hÆ¡n ph?i ch?u làm tính t?.
~ Gloria Steinem
I thank him for surviving—and teaching.
~ Gloria Steinem
as Senator Barbara Mikulski pointed out, "We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year.
~ Gloria Steinem
Our tactics must always reflect our goals. There is no such thing as killing for peace, strengthening people by making their decisions for them, or suppressing dissent to gain freedom.
~ Gloria Steinem
Carolyn Heilbrun's
~ Gloria Steinem
Most women are one man away from welfare.
~ Gloria Steinem
Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously For its Self
~ Gloria Steinem
However far you go from here, you must carry me with you in your heart. If you are lonely, you must know that every hour I will be thinking of you. If you are among evil people, you must be like the lion, gathering your strength and awaiting your time. That time will come, and when it comes, you will come back to us.
~ Gloria Whelan
Marriage was man and wife, side by side as they were now, sharing life's adventures and battling its challenges...together.  It was an alliance forged of the finest steel, tempered in the fires of adversity, and thus blessed by unrivaled strength.
~ Glynnis Campbell
Glynnis Campbell
~ exchange. "They
Glynnis Campbell
~ treasure with
stubborn giant beside her to lend a hand.  Loyalty was a fine
~ Glynnis Campbell
Before, she'd envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control and power. But marriage, she now knew, was not war at all.  Marriage was man and wife, side by side as they were now, sharing life's adventures and battling its challenges...together.  It was an alliance forged of the finest steel, tempered in the fires of adversity, and thus blessed by unrivaled strength.
~ Glynnis Campbell
It was a substantial weapon, aye, but so well made that
~ Glynnis Campbell
Glynnis Campbell
~ that formed
Starting a task or project can be a challenge for a procrastinator. But the only way we strengthen our starting muscles is to start. Then do it again and again.
~ Glynnis Whitwer