They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms–not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.
Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more
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Ishmael Beah
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.
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Sena Jeter Naslund
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
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Terry Goodkind
Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?"Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable...
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Nora Roberts
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Gary Oldman
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He stared into his coffee, thinking quietly. "But you've never been afraid of anything, have you?"" I have, though, " I said, surprised at my own emotion. "I've been terrified... I just haven't let it stop me
Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give...
They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms–not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.
We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure and simple and good, and I believed Ernest was his...
