quotes from top girls
our extract
“you could have left”
“who says I wanted to leave”
“how could I have left”
“if you’d wanted to you’d have done it”
“are you trying to be funny?”
“don’t talk to me”
“why shouldn’t I talk? Why shouldn’t I talk to you?”
“I don’t know how you could leave your own child”
“I hope you feel better”
“I’ve had two abortions, shall I tell you about the? well I wont, it was boring it wasn’t a problem. I don’t like messy talk about blood and what a bad time we all had. I don’t want a baby. I don’t want to talk about gynaecology.”
other extracts
“We’ve all come a long way. To our courage and the way we changed our lives”
“I was full of hope”
“I thought god would speak to me directly”
“but tell us what happened to your baby”
“didn’t you think of getting rid of it?”
“wouldn’t that be worse a sin than having it?”
“but I wouldn’t have known how to get rid of it”
“so the only thing to do was to get rid of it somehow”
“you had to have it adopted secretly”
“it was only a girl but I was sorry to lose it”
“I don’t really remember”
“and the child died too?”
“oh god why are we all so miserable”
“I hope you’re not anorexic, were having pudding, i am, and getting nice and fat”
“how old were you?” “fifteen”
“but of course a wife must obey her husband”
“I’m sure he loved me he just had a funny way of showing it”
“it was hard for him too”
“but you let him take her? you didn’t struggle?”
“I can’t stand this I’m going for a pee”
“was it easier the second time or harder?
“at least your father wasn’t dead, I had nobody”
“and he said ‘this is your daughter’”
“I cannot and will not live the life of a lady”
“wish she was dead”
“you’re sitting on my leg”
“she won’t know”
“21 years is a long time in one place”
“so why are you making a change? why are you, now, after spending most of your life in one place”
“I don’t. I don’t normally talk about myself”
"do you feel alright?”
“you sit there for a bit then”
"could you please piss off?”
1982
Olivia is host
Scarlett there at the beginning
overlapping dialogue