The Bostonians (1984)

Vanessa Redgrave: Olive Chancellor

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• Dr. Prance : It's a pity you can't say "damn".

  Olive Chancellor : Yes.

• Miss Birdseye : [on Basil]  Your cousin looks like a genius, my dear.

  Olive Chancellor : It's only a distant cousin. He's a lawyer from Mississippi, he left his mother and his sisters behind and he's come to try to make his living in New York. He's not in sympathy, I'm afraid.

  Miss Birdseye : Well, I've often found that people are only waiting for the light.

• Olive Chancellor : Don't you believe in the coming of a better day that it's possible to do something for the human race?

  Basil Ransome : Hmm, well... what strikes me most, Ms. Olive, it's that human race's got to bear its troubles.

  Olive Chancellor : But that's what men say to keep women in the position they have made for them.

  Basil Ransome : The position of women is nothing but to make fools of men.

  Olive Chancellor : Don't you believe in our emancipation?

  Basil Ransome : I'll tell you after the meeting.