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1 " We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing "
― Susan Glaspell , A Jury Of Her Peers
2 " We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing. "
― Susan Glaspell , Trifles
3 " For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent. "
― Susan Glaspell
4 " We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance. "
5 " Well, women are used to worrying over trifles. "
6 " I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising. "
7 " No, Peters, it's all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women. "
8 " Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.Susan Glaspell, author "
9 " They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. "
10 " Nothing here but kitchen things. "
11 " It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page. "
12 " They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.) "
― Susan Glaspell , Plays by Susan Glaspell
13 " She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany. "
14 " ... and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed. "
15 " Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were. "
16 " this is cherries, too. (looking again) I declare I believe that's the only one. "
17 " I know what stillness is. "
18 " Only cowards and the broken in spirit surrendered the future as payment for the past. Love was the great and beautiful wonder - but surely one should not stay with it in the place where it found one. Why, loving should light the way! Far from engulfing all the rest of life it seemed now that love should open life to one. Whether one kept it or whether one lost it, it failed if it did not send one farther along the way. She had been afraid to think of her love changing because that had seemed to grant that it had failed. But now it seemed that it failed if it did not leave her bigger than it had found her. Her eyes filled in response to the stern beauty of that. Not that one should stay with love in the same place, but rather the meaning of it all was in just this: that it should send one on. "
19 " She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that—oh, that was thirty years ago. "
20 " I wonder if she was goin' to quilt it or just knot it? "
