Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
Interpretation
This quote acknowledges the struggles women face and highlights their resilience despite inner challenges.
Mary J. Blige's quote reflects on the common struggles that women experience, emphasizing the pain and challenges they endure while maintaining an outward appearance of perfection. It serves as a reminder of the trials and tribulations that many women face, fostering a sense of solidarity and admiration for their strength in overcoming hardships.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a women's empowerment event.
When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything.
We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
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