Female Hardship Quotes

Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.

Everything's harder for women: harder to start, to stay employed, to run a life with a family.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

The real sorrows of war, like those of drunkenness, always fall most heavily upon women.

It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.