My Brilliant Career (1979)

Julia Blake: Mother

Quotes 

• Mother : I've arranged a position for you.

  Sybylla : A position?

  Mother : As a general servant.

  Sybylla : A servant? I won't!

  Mother : You have no choice.

  Sybylla : You just want to get rid of me!

  Mother : I must do what I feel is right! Oh, I pray to God for guidance.

  Sybylla : And this is what he told you to do? God be damned!

• Mother : [sigh]  That I have such a daughter. A useless, blaming, Godless. What can I do?

• Mother : Sybylla, I want to have a talk with you.

  Sybylla : Talk away.

  Mother : You're a young woman now and - I have been thinking about this a great deal - we can't afford to keep you any longer.