#ren

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself ↗

— P.C. Cast

#strength

إن عقل المرأة إذا ذبل ومات ،فقد ذبل عقل الأمة كلها ومات. ↗

— توفيق الحكيم

#strength

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#womens-strength #strength

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#strength

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #bad #fight #good #oppression

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#difference #different #reason #together #trust

You don't treat me like a child." He smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an adult. ↗

— Derek Landy

#respect #respect

Come closer, Kurokuma. It's quite safe.' Horace shuffled closer to the edge... 'Quite safe, my foot,' he muttered to himself. 'And what's this Kurokuma you keep calling me?' 'It's a term of great respect,' Shigeru told him. 'Great respect,' Shukin echoed. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #respect #respect

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. ↗

— Barbara Delinsky

#mother #mothering #respect #respect