“I do not let myself be taken advantage of. I take determined steps and stand my ground. I raise my voice and use my head just as much as my heart.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I love wildly, but not naively. I care passionately, but always purposely. I am soft, but also strong.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“The strongest women are the loneliest because we give so much of ourselves to others and sometimes forget our own selves.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t think there’s any shame in wanting that. In wanting love. In wanting to share your life with someone else. And I don’t think it makes us any less of a strong human being.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being lonely doesn’t mean we are pathetic. It doesn’t mean we have no lives, or that we sulk and wallow in our own misery day in and day out. And it doesn’t mean we are lonely 100% of the time. It just means that we’ve stayed strong for too long.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Strong girls have been hurt so many times it’s almost like it doesn’t faze them anymore. They know how to function with heartbreak and disappointment without letting it impact them.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Strong girls get hurt more because they expect more out of people. Their standards are high because they treat people the way they expect to be treated.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Strong girls are the ones who are authentic. They beat to their own drum and do things according to their own agenda. She’s the type of girl who isn’t afraid to be different and embraces it entirely.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“She doesn’t realize that she’s as strong as iron, because she keeps going. She’s strong, because she still has hope. She’s strong, because she’s capable of smiling through the pain. She’s strong, because she’s still alive, even though she’s witnessed how cruel this world can be.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“She looks strong. But she doesn’t feel strong. She feels like she’s living a lie, like everyone gives her more credit than she deserves.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Even though she might be depressed for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, she always remembers — that she’s strong, that she’s smart, that she’s more than capable of doing whatever the hell she wants.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of t…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teac…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Depression is a strength in you, because there’s nothing harder than overcoming demons within yourself.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’ve gone through heartbreak, and whether you are fully over it now or are still healing, you’ve learned that you are so much stronger than you ever could have guessed.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com