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• You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Strong Women, Feminist, Empowering

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• Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open...I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I'm just not strong enough. Could you help me? Please? Oh, great. Oh, Jason, you're so strong... Seriously? That was me now? On the other hand , a guy was following me.

  Meg Cabot

  Strong, Hands, Guy

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

  Confucius

  Strong, Giving Up, Progress

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

  James P. Carse

  Strong, Play, Wish

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• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Maturity

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

  Neil Gaiman

  Strong, Blood, Ties

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Blue, Oxygen

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.77, Knopf

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• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Atheist, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

  Charles Frazier

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  Washington Irving

  Jealousy, Strong, Regard

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.475

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• I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

  Salma Hayek

  Strong Women, Past, Guy

  "Salma Hayek Covers More Magazine: Actress Talks ‘Sexting’ Her Husband Francois-Henri Pinault". "Huffpost" Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

  J. I. Packer

  Strong, Fall, Failing

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.319, InterVarsity Press

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• If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Running, Strong, Cutting

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.157, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Butterfly, Eye

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• If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Strong, Thinking, Wind

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• If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Empowering

  "How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I'm very much for helping create women who are going to be successful women. I don't like women who imitate men, who want to emasculate men. I think women should be feminine. That does not mean a 'air-brain' or someone who is not strong. I think real strength is strength of character, not the ability to push everyone around.

  June Dally-Watkins

  Strong, Real, Women

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• I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

  James Frey

  Strong, Faces, Enough

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.58, Anchor

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• Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Teaching, People

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• He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Smart, Speed

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• Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Strong, Queens, Mean

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

  Charles Yu

  Strong, Past, Worry

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.14, Vintage

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• He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

  Antonio Porchia

  Strong, Thread, Hold Me

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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