Amy Madigan Quotes

Gladys Promise me that you will not speak about me to another human being. Say it.

Alex I promise.

Gladys Because I'll know, Alex.

Gladys I'm very sick, Alex.

Alex Would you like some water?

Gladys Well, water won't help me. I'm too sick for water. I have been for a very long time.

Alex What will make you better?

Gladys Well, I was hoping your mom and dad would make me feel better, but it doesn't seem to be turning out so good.

Dr. Russell Oakes I think you've got to be willing to let your baby come whether you like it or not. You're holding back hope.

Alison Ransom Hope for what? What do you think is going to happen out there? You think we're going to sweep up the dead and fill in a couple of holes and build some ]? You think all those people left alive out there are going to say, "Oh, I'm sorry. It wasn't my fault. Let's kiss and make up"? We knew the score. We knew all about bombs, we knew all about fallout. We knew this could happen for forty years. But nobody was interested.

Dr. Russell Oakes I can't argue with you.

Alison Ransom Argue with me. Please... give me a reason. Tell me about hope. Tell me why you work so hard in here.

Dr. Russell Oakes ...I don't know.

Alex Would you like to go to a hospital?

Gladys Hospital won't fix me. But maybe you could, though. You could help.

Alex How?

Gladys Well, at school, bring an object from each of your classmates home to me. That might work.

Alex How will that make you better?

Gladys It might be just what I need.

Annie Kinsella Terence Mann was a voice of reason during a time of great madness. He coined the phrase, "Make love, not war". Where others were chanting, "Burn, baby burn", he talked about love, and peace and understanding. I cherished every one of his books, and I dearly wish he had written some more. And I think that if you had experienced even a little bit of the Sixties, you might feel the same way too.

Beulah Gasnick I experienced the Sixties.

Annie Kinsella No, I think you had two 50's and moved right in to the 70's.

Beulah Gasnick Well, your husband plowed under his corn and built a baseball field!...The weirdo!

Annie Kinsella At least he is not a book burner, you Nazi cow!

Beulah Gasnick At least I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties!

Annie Kinsella Who's for ] here? Who wants to burn books? Who wants to spit on the ], anybody? Now who's for the ]? Who thinks that freedom is a pretty darn good thing? Who thinks that we have to stand up to the kind of censorship that they had under ]?

Gladys I can make your parents hurt themselves. I can make them hurt each other. I can make them eat each other if I want to. Do I want to, Alex?