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Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: [annoyed by her daughter's singing] Where in the hell did you come from? (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: [offering food to David and Al Maysles] Will you eat some liver pate, you kiddies?
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: It's not awfully good.
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: If you put lemon with it, it's all right.
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: I may die with this diet! (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: 'Course, I'm mad about animals, but raccoons and cats become a little bit boring. I mean, for too long a time. (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: [stepping out of the house] ... damn, horrible place in two years! God, if you knew how I felt, I'm ready to kill! (Ace Goodman)
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Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Do you think I'm gonna look funny dancing?
Albert Maysles, David Maysles: No...
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: I do terrific dances! (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Do you think my costume looked all right for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed.
David Maysles: He's probably seen it before.
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: No, no, this is the revolutionary costume! I never wear this in East Hampton! (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: I'm pulverized by this latest thing! (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: [complaining about Jerry] I'm so sick of that kid! I mean, I have great pity for him and I like him, but... (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: I always took French, but nothing ever happened there. I can read and write in French, but I can't speak it! (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. You know what I mean? It's awfully difficult. (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Listen, kid! I'm extremely organized. I know exactly where to look for this stuff. I've got it under control right here, but I can't find it. Get it? (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: My God, my muscles, I can't do it, I'm tellin' you! What am I going to do! They're gone, with this soft life! (Ace Goodman)
[Little Edie is reading from her astrology book]
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: "The Libra husband is not an easy man to please. The monotony of domesticity is not to his liking, but he is a passionate man, and a respecter of tradition." (Ace Goodman)
[Little Edie is reading from her astrology book]
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: "The Libra husband is reasonable. He is a born judge, and no other zodiacal type can order his life with so much wisdom." God! That's all I need: order! That's all I need: an ordered life. You know, a manager. But he's *got* to be a Libran. (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: It's very hot in New York on July 29th. (Ace Goodman)
Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Will you shut up? It's a goddamn beautiful day, shut up! (Ace Goodman)
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. (Ace Goodman)
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. (Ace Goodman)
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. (Ace Goodman)
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. (Ace Goodman)
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. (Ace Goodman)
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. (Ace Goodman)
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. (Ace Goodman)
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. (Ace Goodman)
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. (Ace Goodman)
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