She has weathered public storms with dignity and presence where others have come away battered, disgraced.
She has weathered an orphan's childhood, heartbreak, upper-class snobbery, arson and, of course, crazy old Bertha in the attic.
But of all the charges she has weathered, those against the show seem to hurt her the most.
She has weathered a litany of political attacks and scandals and, as Barack Obama said recently, did it all "backwards in heels".
At 19, she's really just a kid – even if she has weathered the kind of life events that usually only strike deep into a mature adulthood.
She has weathered myriad setbacks, including her controversial decision to send her son to a selective school, and her sacking in 1998 as secretary of state for social security after a row with a junior minister there.
At 57, she has weathered more than her fair share of storms: childhood celebrity (as the only daughter of the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen); critical attacks; political controversy; the death of her husband, the French director Louis Malle.
Her marriage seems to finally be at an end, she is getting over her romance with Will Josh Charless), and she has weathered a political scandal of her own.
She has weathered several crises since then, including her party's huge defeat in a regional election last March and the criticism from the United States and other allies when Germany abstained from a U.N. Security Council vote authorizing a no-flight zone in Libya.
My crush has bloomed and settled into something closer to sisterly solidarity as she has weathered the messy end of one relationship (earning the ire of many a misogynist internet idiot, upset that she was moving on with her life) and begun a new one; last month, she announced a second pregnancy.
Since her diagnosis, she has weathered a series of emotional challenges that would thwart the most resilient souls out there.
