Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999 TV Movie)

Ruby Dee: Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Quotes 

• Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : We are not old maids, we are maiden ladies.

• Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : I'm going blind.

  Sadie Delany : You just spotted a speck of dust on my pants leg from three feet away.

• Amy Hill Hearth : Which would you say is harder, being a woman, or...

  Sadie Delany , Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : Being colored.

• Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : Sadie, the family's trying to get us a phone again.

• Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : Young man, if the phone company gave us a phone for free and sent somebody to stand over that phone and answer that phone for us...

  Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany , Sadie Delany : We still wouldn't want a phone.

• Sadie Delany : You should've run into the woods with those other school teachers.

  Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : I'd rather die than back down.

• Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany : [on how they have lived so long]  We never had husbands to worry us to death.