“Endometriosis is not life-threatening. I know I'm lucky in the grand health scheme, but I also know that I am one of many women who grasp for a sense of consistent well-being, fight against the betrayals of their bodies and who are often met with skepticism by doctors trained to view painful periods as a lot of women who should learn to grin and bear it.”
"It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong."
- Lena Dunham
Self-awareness
"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."
- Lena Dunham
Inspiration
"It is interesting how often we can't see all the ways in which we are being strong."
- Lena Dunham
Strength
"A huge part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself."
- Lena Dunham
Empowerment
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity