A Good Woman (2004)
Scarlett Johansson: Meg Windermere
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Quotes
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Meg Windermere : Can you imagine what people would say?
Mrs. Erlynne : Well, if we're always guided by other people's thoughts what's the point of having our own?
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Meg Windermere : How could he?
Contessa Lucchino : Every man is born truthful and every man dies a liar. Now whatever you do you mustn't make a scene. It's too unpleasant and you waste energy.
Meg Windermere : No, of course not. I wouldn't.
Contessa Lucchino : Crying is the refuge of plain women.
[smiling brightly]
Contessa Lucchino : Pretty women go shopping.
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Mrs. Erlynne : I need an opinion from home. Now be honest. Would you wear it?
Meg Windermere : Well, it doesn't leave much to the imagination, does it?
Mrs. Erlynne : That depends on the imagination. Some men have more than others.
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Meg Windermere : I'm going to tell him the truth.
Mrs. Erlynne : What you did is your mistake. Your sack of bricks. You carry it. You don't confess and hand it off to someone who loves you.
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Contessa Lucchino : You mustn't take it personally. Mrs. Erlynne is one of those women that attract men like a bee to a flame. Eh?
Meg Windermere : A moth.
Contessa Lucchino : Bee to a moth. Mmm.
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Meg Windermere : I swear on my mother.
Mrs. Erlynne : Pardon?
Meg Windermere : She's my guardian angel. My whole life I wanted to be like her.
Mrs. Erlynne : I'm sure she wouldn't hold you to such a standard.
Meg Windermere : She'd be so ashamed of me now.
Mrs. Erlynne : We all straddle the abyss, Mrs Windemere. If we never look down, how can we know who we are? A mother could never be ashamed of a daughter who didn't fall in.
