Quotes About Strength

I can hold my own with any man." "Now, don't be modest, sis, you could thrash any man I know.

You had to speak softly and carry a big stick.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

God never breaks a man down with problems except to build him up.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

Women are all vulnerable, and each of us is only as secure as those women that society puts on the "bottom," not as powerful as the token top.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

I do not seem to have felt anything yet,' said Averil, passing her hands over her face. 'I seem to be made of stone.' 'You have done: and that is better than feeling.

You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

We thought of them as "Women," and therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything to be afraid of, and certainly more than one thousand since they had outgrown the feeling.

She is held from within by every hardened layer of untouched instinct which has accumulated through the centuries; she is opposed from without by such mountain ranges of prejudice as would be insurmountable if prejudice were made of anything real.

Ele disse que, com o poder de imaginação que tenho e minha rotina de inventar histórias, uma debilidade dos nervos como a minha só pode resultar em fantasias, e que devo usar minha força de vontade e meu bom senso para controlar essa propensão

Ele disse que, com o poder de imaginação que tenho e meu hábito de inventar histórias, uma debilidade dos nervos como a minha só pode resultar em fantasias exaltadas, e que devo usar minha força de vontade e meu bom senso para controlar essa propensão.

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

Their crime was their existence, Louisa had obliquely understood, and she had heeded Mama's plea that they must not make a noise, taking each blow soundlessly, keeping her tears on the inside, until the lake of her grief had become so wide it had seemed almost inviting, a thing into which she could escape.

Chas Newkey-Burden

Best Day', which touchingly evokes a childhood full of wonder, she sings of her 'excellent' father whose 'strength is making me stronger'. That excellent father is Scott Kingsley Swift, who studied business