Mona Eltahawy Quotes

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

I'm a survivor.

Simple words of encouragement subsequently saved many of the Indianapolis' sailors during their ordeal in the summer of 1945, and those men took the lesson to heart.

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.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

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

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

John, you have broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger, but what you don't really understand in my humble opinion is how much courage you give the rest of us looking at you.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.