Gentleman Jack (TV Series)

I Just Went There to Study Anatomy (2019)

Suranne Jones: Anne Lister

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Quotes 

• Ann Walker : I'm very fond of children, but I'm not sure that I'd want to...

  Ann Walker : [whispers, embarrassed]  give birth.

  Anne Lister : No. No, it's not something I've ever felt compelled to do. I dissected a baby once, in Paris.

  [Ann looks horrified] 

  Anne Lister : It *was* dead, obviously.

• Henry Hardcastle : Are you a man?

  [long pause; Henry's parents look embarrassed] 

  Anne Lister : Well that's a question. And you're not the first person to ask it. I was in Paris once, dressed extremely well, I thought, in silk and ribbons, ringlets in my hair, very gay, very ladylike. And yet even then, someone mistoook me for a... So no, I am *not* a man. I'm a lady. I'm a woman. I'm a lady-woman.