“I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”
“The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”
“A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.”
“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”
“I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.”
“Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.”