Quote by Ayn Rand

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have…

— Ayn Rand

“But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“He could not admire her destructive loyalty to her brother. But it was born of the steel at her core. As a girl, she…

— Meredith Duran

“True submission, she had come to convince herself, was about strength, not weakness. But it wasn’t a physical strength, she was learning. She could…

— Kristin Elyon

Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.

— Nalini Singh

“He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination…

— Margaret Mitchell

“The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and…

— Laini Taylor

“and she had altogether the air of a woman clipped and pruned by severe discipline, an under–brightness shining through from the depths which that…

— Thomas Hardy

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“It was against her principles to allow anyone else to fight her battles and perhaps be injured or killed in her place.”

— Christine Feehan