Saint Frances (2019)

Kelly O'Sullivan: Bridget

Quotes 

• Bridget : What if I was one of those moms who went crazy, and drowned her kids in a bathtub?

  Carol : Those are the extreme cases. It usually doesn't get that far. When you were a baby and you screamed and screamed, and there was nothing I could do to get you to stop, I'd imagine taking you by the ankles, and swinging your little head into the head into the wall over and over until it was a bloody pulp.

  Bridget : Oh, my God.

  Carol : But then I'd feel so guilty from imagining it, I wouldn't actually do it.

  Bridget : I don't know that you should tell that story.

  Carol : It's the truth and women should talk about it more often. Wouldn't be as lonely.

• Bridget : I think it's immoral to have children.

  Carol : Immoral to have children?

  Bridget : Yes, with climate change and school shootings, and possible nuclear war. It's bringing them into a world that's inhospitable.

  Carol : Oh, please, the world has always been inhospitable. When I got pregnant with you, it was the 80s. Every day Reagan joked about nuking Russia, but we survived. I gambled on our survival. That's what having kids is.

  Bridget : That's reckless.

  Carol : That's optimistic. Are you glad you were born?

  Bridget : I don't know.

  Carol : Now see, that's lazy. I expected that when you were a teenager, but you're an adult with a fully formed prefrontal cortex. Actually think about it. I know you didn't ask to be, but if you had the choice to never exist at all, or to have the exact life you're having now, would you have chosen to be born?

• Bridget : I wanna be better than I am. I wanna feel proud of myself.

  Frances : I'm proud of you.

  Bridget : You are?

  Frances : Yeah.

  Bridget : Why?

  Frances : You try even when you're scared.

• Frances : Why did he keep calling me Joan Jett?

  Bridget : It's a compliment.

  Frances : My name is Frances.

  Bridget : You wanna be Joan Jett, trust me. She was one of the great rock stars. Really angry, lots of statement eyeliner. Wonder if she's dead now.

  Frances : Why was she angry?

  Bridget : Because she was born into a patriarchy and it effing sucked.

  Frances : What's a patriarchy?

  Bridget : It's where men are in charge, and women have to do what they say.

  Frances : My guitar class is a patriarchy.

• Annie : You might be anemic. You need to go to the doctor.

  Bridget : You're not like horrified?

  Annie : That no one around here knows how to go to the doctor, yes. That you had an abortion, no.

• Bridget : There's been a lot of blood though, so it

  [fetus] 

  Bridget : could just be another clot. I hate how they compare it to cute things, you know? Like a raspberry, a kumquat, a tomatillo.

  Jace : When really it's just the size of a rat turd.

• Bridget : Maya was this funny, confident, sexy woman, and now she's just like this... she's a bare-boobed, unshowered, perpetually crying milk machine.

• Bridget : [to Jace]  You have all of these feelings; you're whole millennial generation.