Quotes About Strength

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

Being with him made her realize there was more to life than living in constant fear. She

You're not a proper dragon', they sneered. 'You can't fly.' 'You can't breathe fire.' 'You're covered in feathers, you big...softy.' "We're covered in feathers,' says Bib. "Yes," says Mummy, "feathers keep us warm, but they can't keep cold words out.

Pain is mostly mind over matter: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Sometimes is pays to be fast and sneaky instead of just a pile of muscles," she said laughing. "And you make such a satisfying thump when you go down.

A voice was whispering to her. "Breathe, breathe, breathe," it kept urging. A warm body was over hers, pressed against her. Someone bigger than she was, stronger, a powerful life force. A mouth on hers, warm lips, lips she didn't want to leave hers.

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

A rose on a steel stem

to the children we force to be braver than they should have to be.

know you dislike change. So do I. But it comes whether we like it or not. Each day we grow older. People are born, marry... die. Governments come and go. Wars are won or lost. Nothing stays the same forever except God's love. All we can do is pray for strength to make the best of whatever comes.

But precisely because love is so strong, we are, especially in our youth...usually not strong enough to maintain a straight course. —Vincent van Gogh

O Lord, join us intimately to one another and let our love for Thee make that bond ever stronger.

Women help one another survive much in this world

To make things change, you need a strong heart.

How many times can your heat mend until it's broken beyond repair? --Deborah King

If you have a devil within you, don't hide him but put him in front of your wagon so that he will use up all his strength by pulling you forward.

to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...

It is so mysterious to want to suppress women. It is even more mysterious when women want to suppress women. I can only think we are so very powerful that we need to be suppressed all the time.

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

By?am cielesno?ci?, pragnieniem, ??dz?, py?em, krwi?, sp?kanymi ustami, pokrytymi p?cherzami stopami, otartymi kolanami, st?uczonymi biodrami, lecz by?am te? szcz??liwa, ?e nie drzemi? na sofie pod kocem ze starcem u boku i dzieckiem na kolanach.

Cuando una mujer tiene que encontrar una forma nueva de vivir y rompe con la historia social que ha borrado su nombre, se espera que se odie a sí misma atrozmente, que enloquezca de dolor, que llore arrepentida. Son las joyas reservadas para ella en la corona del patriarcado, siempre a su disposición. No faltan las lágrimas, pero es mejor atravesar la oscuridad negra y azulada que quedarse con esas joyas que nada valen

I was thinking of Hecate at the crossroads with her burning torches and keys, Medusa with her snakes and fatal gaze, Artemis with her hunting dogs and deer, Aphrodite with her doves, Demeter with her mares, Athena with her owl. Whenever I saw eccentric and sometimes mentally fragile older women feeding pigeons on the pavement of every city in the world, I thought, Yes, there she is, she is one of those cut-down goddesses who has become demented by life.

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily