💬 Quotes

"They were beaten; they had played the game of life and they had lost."

"I aim to give you the truth about the beef trust, and if the public doesn't care, then the public is a monster."

"There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it."

"It was as if they had been born to suffer and to die, and they could not imagine that they had any other purpose in life."

"If a man did not work, he did not eat; and if he did not work hard, he was turned out of his place and someone else took it."

"Chicago was not a city, it was a state of mind, an atmosphere, a spirit."

"Macbeth is not a hero who falls, but a man who is constructed by a social discourse of militarism and then destroyed by it."

"The witches are not merely supernatural agents of evil; they are the cracks in the social order that allow repressed anxieties to surface."

"Lady Macbeth's exclusion from the political sphere forces her to channel her ambition through her husband, turning domesticity into a site of subversion."

"The transition from feudal loyalty to a more modern, competitive individualism is the engine that drives Macbeth's moral collapse."

"Kingship in Macbeth is presented as a fragile construct, maintained as much by the performance of legitimacy as by the reality of power."

"The tragedy of Macbeth lies in the realization that there is no 'true' self beneath the layers of social expectation and violent ambition."

"The past is never dead. It’s not even past. It’s just waiting for us to come back and pick it up, like a piece of luggage we left at the station."

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."

"Honey, look at me. You have to learn how to be your own mother. You have to love yourself enough to forgive the woman who gave you life."

"We are a sisterhood of the heart, bound by the scars we’ve collected and the secrets we’ve protected for forty years."

"Sometimes you have to step into the swamp of your own history to find the person you were before the world told you who to be."

"Everything that happens to you is yours and will be yours forever. The trick is to own it, to make it a part of your story instead of letting it be the thing that keeps you from starting the next chapter."

"Accidents are events that occur without cause; they are occurrences that do not belong to the chain of events that makes up the universe."

"The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth."