Woodrow Wilson
(1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
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“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat.”
The Second World War, Volume IV : The Hinge of Fate (1951) Chapter 33 (The Battle of Alamein)
BBC News story on the 60th anniversary of Alamein http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2347801.stm.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
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The Middle Ground (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980) p. 236
“One is never so strong as when one is broken.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan
(1882–1927) Indian Sufi
Source: Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening
“Defeat your defeats, and never come back your feet.”
Umair Ahmad
(1997) Entrepreneur, Writer, Researcher & Film Producer
Lahore: History and Architecture of Mughal Monuments Oxford University Press, (16 April 2016)