Quotes About Strength

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

The old poems said that lovers were made for each other. But that wasn't true for Kai and Elliot. They hadn't been made for each other at all—quite the opposite. But they'd grown together, the two of them, until they were like two trees from a single trunk, stronger together than either could have been alone.

If you can stand on your own, it's better that you walk back rather than making someone from the fleet take you." Elliot rose, then swallowed the bile she tasted in her throat. "I have stood on my own for many years." He didn't look away this time, and his eyes were like a stranger's. "You're not the only one.

She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.

The secret to surviving heartbreak is finding more pressing drama.

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

Existen mujeres que nacieron para sobrevivir y hay otras que nacieron para volar.

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.

Everybody has a scar...

Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part.

barely test in the normal range, but that woman could run this farm. She graduated from the colored high school in Ridley, which is no small feat given the environment she grew up in.

sister, you know that?" he asked. "She could beat me

I guess when the world's crumbling around you the only way to survive is to comfort yourself," he said.

Violence is the weapon of the weak. - Ralph Abernathy

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." Something bad might happen..." Impossible. But possibly something painful" -A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane

If the world is ever in the throes of Armageddon, it's the women who'll be left standing.

For no matter how weak she felt, Betsy could wield words as a weapon. When an acquaintance insisted it was impossible to acquire a knowledge of the world without being deeply infected with its vices, she retorted that knowledge was a precaution rather than a trap, "for as soon as [we] have found out where [we] are mostly likely to be overcome, there let [us] place [our] strongest guard.

Misfortune prompts us to summon our utmost strength to oppose grief and recover tranquility, while prosperity hurries us away until we are overwhelmed by our passions. Queen Margot Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucault We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears. I sometimes wonder is the esprit, gaiety, intellectual seriousness and serious stylishness of the earlier period was the reflex of poverty and shared hardship.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.