Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

I'm not made of glass.

I have heart, and you can't break heart.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

Love isn't a weakness.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

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

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.