Elia Berkovitch

“إن الحاكم الفرد (الطاغية) هو أسوأ ما تحظى به المدينة، ففي ظل حكمه لن توجد قوانين تحكم الجميع. ولكنه سوف يسخر القوانين لصالحه بحيث لا تفيد سواه، وهكذا تختفي المساواة. ولكن حينما يكون هناك دستور وقوانين مكتوبة فإن الفقير والغني سوف يتمتعان بالعدالة، ويكون منحق الفقير استخدام نفس اللغة التي يستخدمها الغني، وإذا ما أهانه الغني فإنه ينتصر عليه إذا كان الحق يقف إلى جانبه.”
― Euripides, Suppliant Women

“[...] aquilo que faz parte do âmbito pessoal é também um ato político, [...] o diálogo pode ser uma forma de resistência.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“THE DATE WAS APRIL 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63–65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster. It was just after dark. A blustery March wind whipped the steam coming out of the manholes, and people hurried along the sidewalks with their collars turned up. I was stuck in traffic two blocks from the party where I was heading. Mom stood fifteen feet away. She had tied rags around her shoulders to keep out the spring chill and was picking through the trash while her dog, a black-and-white terrier mix, played at her feet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle