Stockard Channing credited as playing...
Abbey Bartlet
- Abbey Bartlet: You know what this life style does to the body? The minute your system senses stress, it releases a hormone that constricts blood vessels, contracts the heart muscles, stimulates the adrenal gland. You stay in this state for not a hundredth of the time you and I have exisited like this, and the vessels begin to shred. The heart permanently constricts. The intestines, the immune system, shut down. Relieving those conditions is the one responsible course of action I can take. I am sorry it is not a course of action that's available to you. Bit if you think you're going to talk me out of it with some VALLEY OFTHE DOLLS cautionary tale, you have picked the wrong girl.