I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.