Meridel Le Sueur Quotes

I've always believed in survival.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

We will persevere, come life or death.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.