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title: "10 Toughened Quotes by 9 authors"
description: "Browse 10 Toughened quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Toughened sayings and thoughts."
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> [Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chitra-banerjee-divakaruni/girls-have-to-be-toughened-so-they-can-survive-a-world-that-presses/)

[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chitra-banerjee-divakaruni/)

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> [You know, I thought that this whole campaign had really toughened me up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya/you-know-i-thought-that-this-whole-campaign-had-really-toughened-me-up/)

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya/)

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> [Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diablo-cody/stripping-toughened-my-hide-but-exposing-myself-as-a-writer-has-been/)

[Diablo Cody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diablo-cody/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58d/diablo-cody-2531_brutal_stripping-toughened-my-hide-but-exposing_952947.png)

> [I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dolly-parton/i-ll-never-harden-my-heart-but-i-ve-toughened-the-muscles-around-it/)

[Dolly Parton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dolly-parton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/dolly-parton-366_heart_i-ll-never-harden-my-heart-but-i-ve-toug_914373.jpg)

> [Training up against Wilf and Bolasie toughened me up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-wan-bissaka/training-up-against-wilf-and-bolasie-toughened-me-up/)

[Aaron Wan-Bissaka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-wan-bissaka/)

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> [“ve never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gayle-forman/ve-never-toughened-up-enough-to-handle-what-i-d-have-to-handle-if-i/)

[Gayle Forman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gayle-forman/)

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> [“I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gayle-forman/i-ve-never-toughened-up-enough-to-handle-what-i-d-have-to-handle-if-i/)

[Gayle Forman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gayle-forman/)

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> [I've been wrestling since I was 4, so it's more a thing that's just a part of me now. It's toughened me mentally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darren-elkins/i-ve-been-wrestling-since-i-was-4-so-it-s-more-a-thing-that-s-just-a/)

[Darren Elkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darren-elkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6f/darren-elkins-9563_me_i-ve-been-wrestling-since-i-was-4-so-it_158900.jpg)

> [Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-warren/life-as-an-actor-has-toughened-me-up-and-i-ve-learned-that-you/)

[Marc Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-warren/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/marc-warren-31021_actor_life-as-an-actor-has-toughened-me-up-and_585159.jpg)

> [“To Scottie June 12, 1940 p.451 ...don't take the things in which you can get 'A', for you can learn them yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/to-scottie-june-12-1940-p-451-don-t-take-the-things-in-which-you-can/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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