Quotes About Strength

And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!

people look down on a woman without education. She has few options. To survive, she is forced to put up with ill-treatment. She must depend on the kindness of strangers, an unsure thing. I do not want that for you

Once I said to my mother, As long as there's fresh bread in this world, things can't be beyond repair.

Weeping is not bad. It clears out the heart, making space in it for growth.

You are a daughter of independence, the country's future. Women like you are the ones for whom we fought and died, the ones who will transform India. You must carry the flag forward. You may fall from time to time. We all did. What is important is to get up again.

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

There will be challenges—which worthwhile endeavor doesn't have them?—but I am prepared. Love will give me strength. Do not worry about me. It will be a grand adventure.

Pain, which is ultimately only like itself.

Tunggu seorang laki-laki membalaskan dendam untukmu, dan kau akan menunggu selamanya. -Srikandi

Dia yakin tentang itu. Bukankah itulah kebenaran? Kekuatan keyakinan seseorang merembes kepada orang-orang di sekitarnya--ke dalam tanah, udara, dan air-- sampai tidak ada yang lainnya." -Krishna

Bless me that I might be like the Rani of Jhansi, the Queen of Swords," I say. "Bless me that I have the courage to go into battle when necessary, no matter how bleak the situation. Bless me that I may be able to fight for myself and my child, no matter where I am.

Kekuatan laki-laki bisa diibaratkan serudukan sapi jantan, sementara kekuatan perempuan bergerak serong, seperti ular yang mencari mangsa. Kecuali kau gunakan dengan benar, kekuatanmu tidak akan menghasilkan apa yang kau inginkan." -Srikandi

Sometimes—she knows this from her own life—to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.

And that is how, poised in the sky between our new life and our old one, the life we cannot yet imagine and the one we've already begun to forget, I tell her a tale to make her heart strong, to graft her life onto. For of all things in this world it seems to me that that is what women most need.

Yes my Lalita, coming at last into your own, I am praying for you. O spices, o all the forces of the world, do not let her give up. Daughter, the birth passage is always narrow, suffocating. But that first free gulp of air filling the lungs, ah. I pray it for you.

Give me strength to do the right thing, I whispered, though to whom I don't know. I didn't put much trust in the gods.

Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan. -Duryodana

wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

Now that she no longer cares whether tears blotch her letter, she feels no need to weep.

I think of the power of that flimsy cloth, the veil. It helped me win a crucial battle today. I must learn how to use this unique weapon to its fullest.

Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

Grief has pulled her out further than she thought she could go. To the edge of what it is possible to bear, of what's habitable, and then further again.