Sisterhood

Question 1

Isabella: ‘To Marlene.’

Answer 1

Marlene: ‘And all of us.’

Joan, Nijo, Gret: ‘Marlene.’ p.24

Question 2

• ‘All the ladies come… Take that, take that.’ p.40

Answer 2

When Nijo describes hitting the Emperor

Question 3

• Jeanine: ‘Do you believe it?’

Answer 3

Marlene: ‘I think you could make me believe it if you put your mind to it.’ p.45

Question 4

Kit: ‘You’re sitting on me.’

Answer 4

Angie: ‘Mind my hair you silly cunt.

Kit: ‘Stupid fucking cow, I hate you.’ p.48

Question 5

• Angie: ‘You’re scared of blood.’

Answer 5

(KIT puts her hand under her dress, brings it out with blood on her finger.)
Kit: ‘There, see, I got my own blood, so.’ (ANGIE takes KIT’s handed licks her finger.)
Angie: ‘Now I’m a cannibal. I might turn into a vampire now.’ p.48

• Angie: ‘Out here. In the dark. What if I left you here in the dark all night…

Question 6

• Angie: ‘Well I’m not telling you so you can die for all I care.’

Answer 6

Kit: ‘My mother says there’s something wrong with you… She says you’re a bad h influence…’ (ANGIE twists KIT’s arm till she cries out.)
Angie: ‘Say you’re a liar.’
Kit: ‘She said it not me.”

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Question 7

Angie: ‘I’m sorry I hurt you… Do you like me?’

Answer 7

Kit: ‘I don’t know.’

Angie: ‘You do like me.’ p.51

Question 8

Nell: ‘Our Marlene’s got far more balls than Howard and that’s that.’ p.57

Answer 8

Win: ‘We’d rather it was you than Howard. We’re glad for you, aren’t we, Nell?’
Nell: ‘Oh yes. Aces.’ p.61

Question 9

Win: ‘Are you the only woman?’

Answer 9

Louis: ‘Apart form the girls of course…I don’t greatly care for working with women…’

Question 10

Mrs Kidd: ‘And now what do I get?

Answer 10

You women this, you women that… You’re one of those ball breakers, that’s what you are. You’ll end up miserable and lonely. You’re not natural.’ p.70

Question 11

• Joyce: ‘You could be married

Answer 11

with twins for all I know. You must have affairs and break up and I don’t need to know about any of that…’ p.85

Question 12

Marlene: ‘So it’s just your mother

Answer 12

Marlene: ‘So it’s just your mother is it, your child, you never wanted me round.’ p.89

Question 13

Marlene: ‘You’ve been wonderful looking after Angie.’

Answer 13

Joyce: ‘Don’t get carried away.’

Marlene: ‘I can’t write letters but I do think of you… Love you.’ p.93

Question 14

Marlene: ‘He tried to kiss me once.

Answer 14

When you were engaged…he looked like a fish.’ Joyce: ‘He looked lovely then.’ Marlene: ‘Ugh.’ Joyce: ‘Well I fancied him.’ p.93

Question 15

• Marlene: ‘I didn’t really mean all that.’

Answer 15

Joyce: ‘I did.’
Marlene: ‘But we’re friends anyway.’
Joyce: ‘I don’t think so, no.’ p.98

Question 16

​Joan: ‘In the end I did take a lover again.’

Answer 16

Gret: *‘Keep you warm.’
Nijo: *‘Ah, lover.’
Marlene: *’Good for you.’

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