Mrs. Henry Windle Vale:
No member of the Vale family has ever had a nervous breakdown.
Dr. Jasquith:
Well there's one having one now.
Charlotte Vale:
Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Dr. Jasquith:
Remember what it says in the Bible, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
Charlotte Vale:
How does it feel to be the Lord?
Dr. Jasquith:
Not so very wonderful, since the Free Will Bill was passed. Too little power.
Charlotte Vale:
I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid, mother. I'm not afraid.
Charlotte:
A spinster aunt is an ideal person to select presents for young girls.
Charlotte:
An architect! I could cry with pride.
Jerry:
Are you one of the Vales of Boston?
Charlotte:
One of the lesser ones.
Jerry:
Is it Miss, or Mrs.?
Charlotte:
It's Aunt.
June:
Got the shakes, Aunt Charlotte?
Charlotte:
Go on! Make fun of me! You think it's fun making fun of me!
Mrs. Vale:
Charlotte is no more ill than a moulting canary.
Charlotte Vale:
Some girls aren't the marrying kind.
Charlotte Vale:
[
to her mother] I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.
Charlotte Vale:
Dr. Jasquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.
Dr. Jasquith:
I thought you said you came here to have a nervous breakdown.
Charlotte:
About that, I've decided not to have one.
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