MJ Hegar Quotes

I thought I was weak and couldn't be on my own. But actually, I can do it; I just need to be a bit braver.

I always had that desire of being strong and being able to protect myself, being able to protect others.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

I have my own strength.

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.

The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of a wolf. I want to be stronger and more independent. I sort of wrote the song for that.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

I'm not a victim.

Don't worry about me. Worry about the next man. If you see me in a fight, don't help me. Pour honey on me and then help the bear. Don't worry about me. I'm Dorothy Bowe's baby boy. I'm going to be all right.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.