Struggled

Famous quotes containing the word struggled:

“The woman’s world ... is shown as a series of limited spaces, with the woman struggling to get free of them. The struggle is what the film is about; what is struggled against is the limited space itself. Consequently, to make its point, the film has to deny itself and suggest it was the struggle that was wrong, not the space.”
—Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936)

“I struggled with the horror of daybreak,
I chose it for my lot! If questioned on
My utmost pleasure with a man
By some new-married bride, I take
That stillness for a theme
Where his heart my heart did seem....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most—”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)