Quotes for Bii) Flashcards
Minnie - 2
1:9 - I could let you out through the kitchen, miss, if you’d rather’
1:11 - ‘ I sold him ‘
Billy - 1
1:11 - ‘I can’t work and look after the girls. you got to come home.
Carolyn - 3
1:3 - ‘happiness is based on who you are and what you have’
’ oh come on. who doesn’t want materialistic things? no one wants to live like a factory worker in some backwater out in the slums’
1:8 - ‘COME TO PARIS WITH ME’
‘We’d lend you some clothes so you didn’t have to wear that ghastly old grey thing’
2:6 - ‘I’m going to be a doctor’ - to Lloyd
Tess - 3
1:4 - ‘why won’t you acknowledge other people’s theories?’
1:8 - ‘parading? we’re not trying to make a spectacle, we’re just going to lectures’ - to will
2:3 ‘I’m an outlaw’ - to Ralph
2:5 ‘we’re bluestockings, Celia. Untouchables.’
Celia - 3
1:9 - ‘You’ll regret it. She’ll regret it. Tess!’
2:5 - ‘You can’t risk another failure’- to Tess
2:9 - ‘we might graduate, Tess. Can’t you see? We’d be the first’
Maeve - 3
1:3 - ‘you know nothing’ - to Carolyn
1:10 - ‘no philosopher. it’s just what I think’ - to miss Blake
1:11 - ‘But this is who I am!
You gave me this chance, YOu’ve shown me the world’ - to mrs welsh
Mrs Welsh - 3
1:6 - ‘ the only thing women can own is knowledge’ - to Tess
1:11 - ‘ we are not fighting Miss Blake. we are not suffragists.’
2:11 - ‘you’ve sacrificed nothing. Nothing! We sweat. Bleed. We give up everything we have in the world for this’
Miss Blake - 3
1:3 - ‘get to a library, you know the men won’t marry you if you choose knowledge. and I won’t lecture you… if you don’t’
1:11 - ‘so we’ll pack her off to be a mother will we? what sort of signal does that send out? it goes against everything we’re fighting for’
2:7 - ‘ive resighned ‘ - to mr banks
Lloyd - 3
2:6 - ‘no man will be doctored by a woman’
- to Carolyn
2:11 - ‘whose side are you on? you’re with us or against us’
1:4 ‘ the petticoats descend’
Holmes - 3
2:9 ‘She’s a new ham girl?… what happened to Tess?’
2:11 - ‘Lloyd. that’s enough’
2:11 - ‘regardless of what we think, you don’t deserve this, i’m sorry for you loss’
will - 3
1;8 - ‘I promised I’d look after you, Tess. when I said yes to your father, we thought you were coming here to learn. Quietly. but this! I would frighten him.
2:2 - ‘… and Tess, I think I might have fallen in love with you’
2:12 - ‘I’ll wait. im not going anywhere, not without you’
Ralph - 3
1:9 - ‘Miss Moffat, may I kiss your hand?’
2;3 - ‘there’s no one like you, Tess Moffat’.
2:8 - ‘My father has expectations. Plans for me. Girton is - well, it’s political’
Edwards - 2
1:2 - ‘I rather like them - being here - to study’
2:11 - if you can’t graduate. What’s the point?’
Dr Maudsley
Trinity college professors
1:4 - ‘Do not contradict me, Miss!’
2:1 - ‘it won’t be possible for you to continue teaching at Girton once you are a fellow of trinity’
- Anderson
radleeigh - ‘these girls will never be wives. they’ll sacrifice all of that. and for what?
Miss Bott
1:8 - ‘no males may be left’
1:7 - miss both watches them suspiciously
mr banks
1:1 to tess ‘I thought you wanted to be a scientist’
2:1 to the trinity professors
‘if the vote goes our way’
2:6 to miss Blake
‘when they found out I was involved with the vote, they withdrew my offer’
