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Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, and Madeleine Potter in The Bostonians (1984)

Vanessa Redgrave: Olive Chancellor

The Bostonians

Vanessa Redgrave credited as playing...

Olive Chancellor

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  • Miss Birdseye: [on Basil] Your cousin looks like a genius, my dear.
  • Olive Chancellor: It's only a distant cousin. He's a lawyer from Mississippi, he left his mother and his sisters behind and he's come to try to make his living in New York. He's not in sympathy, I'm afraid.
  • Miss Birdseye: Well, I've often found that people are only waiting for the light.
  • Dr. Prance: It's a pity you can't say "damn".
  • Olive Chancellor: Yes.
  • Basil Ransome: Don't you believe in the coming of a better day that it's possible to do something for the human race?
  • Basil Ransome: Hmm, well... what strikes me most, Ms. Olive, it's that human race's got to bear its troubles.
  • Olive Chancellor: But that's what men say to keep women in the position they have made for them.
  • Basil Ransome: The position of women is nothing but to make fools of men.
  • Olive Chancellor: Don't you believe in our emancipation?
  • Basil Ransome: I'll tell you after the meeting.

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