Minimum Breaking Strength

Famous quotes containing the words minimum, breaking and/or strength:

    “After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)

    “What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
    —Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

    “I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)