film quotes archive

“Is it better to speak or to die?” “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything, what a waste!”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“Don’t you think maybe they’re the same thing? Love and attention?” “But do you like me?”

“Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it. But I’m so lonely.” “Well. I’m not a poet, I’m just a woman. And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don’t, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.”

“Have you seen my son? Have you seen my beautiful boy? Tell him I miss him” “You’re just embarrassed because I was like…you know, I was like this amazing thing, like your special creation or something, and you don’t like who I am now! … This is me, Dad! Here, this is who I am!”