You've demonstrated strength in many disciplines in your life. What advice would you have for the millions of women at iVillage in terms of managing through adversity?

SECRETARY RICE: If you've got great family and great friends, as I have had throughout my life, that helps a lot. I'm also someone who has great religious faith. I am a great believer in being able to draw on what the Apostle Paul once said in Romans 5, which is that you have the glory and tribulation also, because from tribulation grows perseverance, and out of perseverance, hope.

In times when life is easy, we don't appreciate enough our religious faith, or the people who support us and care about us and love us. But when things get tough, we have to rely on them. Every time you go through a tough period, I think you're just making yourself a stronger person.

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