Strength Quotes

Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.

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"I was taught that independence was the greatest virtue."
Marie Curie
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"One must be brave enough to stand alone in the pursuit of truth."
Marie Curie
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"I have learned that true strength lies in the power of the mind."
Marie Curie
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"Debility challenges us to rethink what counts as ability and productivity."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Disability is not lack but difference; it teaches us to think the world otherwise."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The body is a site of both vulnerability and power."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The strength to admit weakness is the greatest form of power."
Gupta, Akhil
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"The small person is bounded by circumstance; the great person transcends it."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Difference is productive, not merely negative."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The body exceeds and resists all attempts at total control."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The body is not a negative limit but a generative force."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The nomadic subject embraces mobility and transformation as sources of strength."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The body knows how to resist; we must learn to listen to its signals."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The body remembers what the mind forgets."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The body is a site of both vulnerability and power."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We must develop forms of solidarity adequate to our current moment."
Puar, Jasbir
"I have learned that true strength lies in adaptation, not in rigidity."
Charles Darwin
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"Strength is not about having all the answers."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We are made of the losses we have survived."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The strongest people are those who can admit when they are wrong."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Corporeality is not a limitation but a condition of possibility."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"To be queer is to be at odds with the world, and that is a gift."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We are capable of more than we imagine."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The goal is not to transcend the body but to celebrate its capacities."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"That which does not kill us makes us stronger"
Law, John
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"Strength is not the absence of vulnerability; it is honesty about it."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Strength lies in our capacity to love despite pain."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Vulnerability is not weakness; it is the condition of being alive."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are response-able for what we touch, what touches us."
Haraway, Donna
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"We inherit the struggles of those who came before us, and in recognizing this, we find our power."
Ahmed, Sara