Beverly Engel Quotes
Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.
Quotes to Explore
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
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Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.
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I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.
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By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.
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It is discouraging. But at the time same, I know it could have been worse.
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
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God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
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If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively.
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Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.
