“Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands—two equally harmful disciplines.”
"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Awareness
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Awareness
"The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Awareness
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Compassion
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."
- Simone de Beauvoir
Integrity
"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