“I may not be strong, but I am fierce”
“I am strong as steel and my roots are planted deep in this southern soil. Time may have weathered me, but I will always bend with the wind”
“I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.”
“Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.”
“may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.”
“I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.”