"Quotes"

Wayne 2022-01-06 08:01:59

"This wasn't the first time you'd disappointed your father, was it?

Wasn't the first time he disappointed me either."


"You act like I'm stealing. I work damn hard every day, same as you .

Oh. Now you're the same as me.

Oh, no. There's a few differences. You don't go to work scared of what they gonna write about you on walls, or what kind of disgusting thing you might find in your locker. You don't gotta be scared that one of these days you'll come to work and get raped."


"Herds. They stay together, they have a chance. They separate, they're easy prey."


" How are you and the kids supposed to eat if you don't have a job? I'm your mother, Josey. I haven't always been the best at it, I know.But I'm here.」


"My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a ranger all of my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't ever see nobody grabbing them by their privates or, you know, drawing pictures of them on the bathroom wall was doing unspeakables. Unspeakables! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! Isn't she? It's a heck of a thing, watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. Fact, the only one here that I'm not ashamed of... is my daughter.」


"What are you supposed to do when the ones with all the power are hurting those with none? Well for starters, you stand up. Stand up and tell the truth. You stand up for your friends. You stand up even when you're all alone. You stand up.」

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Extended Reading
  • Mittie 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    Women should fight for their rights. If they don't fight for them, how can they expect men to help you? In an era when women's status was not high, women could only rely on themselves. . .

  • Deonte 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    Push people to squeeze themselves. Even with the development of feminism today, pregnancy out of wedlock is still a shame for many people, both for parents and children, but the one who sows the seeds is rarely held accountable.

North Country quotes

  • [first lines]

    Josey Aimes: [testifying] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough.

    Lawyer: I'm sure we're all sufficiently impressed, Mrs. Aimes.

    Josey Aimes: There's no "Mrs." here.

  • Hank Aimes: [to Josey upon announcing her desire to work at the mine] You wanna be a lesbian, now?

    Karen Aimes: [innocently] *I* wanna be a lesbian.