Erica

“the mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“I think some men love the idea of a strong independent woman but they don’t want to marry a strong independent woman,”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Socialists have a big job ahead of them here. They have got to demonstrate, beyond possibility of doubt, just where the line of cleavage between exploiter and exploited comes. Once again it is a question of sticking to the essentials; and the essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk of 'capitalism' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier