Susan Glaspell Quotes

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

I think the one thing about 'Total Divas' is that we all had to open up our lives. We all had to open up that book and show you every chapter we've been through. Then when you start comparing, you see we all have something in common. That's what made us all close.

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it. If there's something kooky about your body, other people have that, too. We're not alone. There's some kind of tremendous relief in that and I think it can only be expressed in belly laughter. This tremendous relief that happens the millisecond we realize, it's not just me. That's what good laughter is about. It's about knowing that you're not alone.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.