#strong

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment. ↗

— Elizabeth Prioleau

#strong-women #women #art

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-strong #burden #discernment #fear #guilt

I have cancer. Cancer doesn't have me. ↗

— Marco Calderon

#faith #fight #god #hope #insperational

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#familiarity #strong #weakness #freedom

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#marriage #stand #strong #two #well-built

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #mind #prayer #secret #strong

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong. ↗

— Pearl Cleage

#man #strong #truth #weak #woman

I'm thankful because I'm still alive. I'm thankful because I lived the mantra, Only The Strong Survive. I'm thankful because I have Chris Ann. And that has made all the difference. And it always will. It always gets better. I told you so... ↗

— Jamie Schoffman

#jamie-schoffman #not-all-out-of-love #strong #thankful #love

If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#lord-peter-wimsey #marriage #strong-poison #marriage

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#female #happen #hopefully #i #just