Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Liberation - October 16, 1968 (1993)

Deborah Van Valkenburgh: Diana St. Cloud

Quotes 

• [Diana has suggested a violent confrontation against the male society] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : I understand that you cannot match strength in a physical confrontation.

  Diana St. Cloud : Unless we fight, nothing will change.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Fine. Fine, then fight them in the boardrooms, not in a street brawl. You wanna make a change? Take a lesson from Gandhi.

  Admiral Al Calavicci : Or King.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Or Martin Luther King. You go out and start a riot, and people will only notice what's wrong about you. But you state your beliefs in an orderly fashion, and people will notice what's wrong about the system.

• Diana St. Cloud : In marriage, husbands and wives are one; and that one is the husband.

  Suzanne Sanders : Diana, I just don't understand. How did we let it get that way?

  Diana St. Cloud : Fear.

  Suzanne Sanders : Of what?

  Diana St. Cloud : Well, mine started with my father, who used to beat me.

  Suzanne Sanders : Really?

  Diana St. Cloud : And when he wasn't hitting me, he would tell me I was stupid, and brainless. And my mother allowed it, because she was so afraid she wouldn't be able to survive alone.

  Suzanne Sanders : I can't believe anyone would hit their own child.

  Diana St. Cloud : Well, I guess by putting me down, my father was making himself feel smarter and stronger.

  Suzanne Sanders : But that's wrong.

  Diana St. Cloud : I know. Suzi, men have been oppressing women for thousands of years, and we've allowed it.

  Suzanne Sanders : Well, I'm not gonna allow it.

  Diana St. Cloud : We allow it. And every time we tell our daughters they're not as bright, not as strong, not as good as men, every time, we're creating another generation of fear.