Quotes About Strength

You put me back together when I was in pieces. You gave me confidence, and reminded me that I was lovable. You saved me.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I'm fighting for myself.

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It's so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y'all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.

Renee was entering her acquisitions meeting with the air of Scarlett throwing the Yankees off Tara. Renee was all about going into battle. She wore a fitted gray BCBG pantsuit and her shaggy bob sleekly tucked behind her ears. She was Not Fucking Around.

Men don't define our journey. It's about honoring our queendom. Vibrating at our divine plane.

No one's coming to save you. You have to do it.

But what fully realized person doesn't? No one expects men to be flaw-free. Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.

This isn't about him. It's about me. Occupying all the space I need to. Standing tall in exactly who the hell I am. A damned good mom and writer with a terrible disability who overcomes it every day and whose best work is ahead of her and whose ass is perched for the gawds in her dress.

Her teenage fury had morphed into something else: power.

This ability makes us more available to all of life. It builds self-confidence and inner strength.

In working through the pain of a traumatic past, it is important to help clients to identify not only what hurt them, but what sustained them.

It's like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can't have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands.

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson

But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

There's nothing like heartbreak to crack a person wide open. But the cracks can sometimes act as reservoirs too.

I had scars. But my scars also served to instill a kind of reverence in me. Reverence that, during times of weakness, became shrouded in darkness.

Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman," Kat cried. "Pick her up, Grace! Do it!

no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.