The Powers That Be (TV Series)

St. Caitlyn of Shears (1993)

Holland Taylor: Margaret Powers

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• Margaret Powers : We live in very complex, modern times, and hard-and-fast rules simply no longer apply, darling. Take the Ten Commandments, for example. You should look at them as the Ten Suggestions. I mean, it's not as though they were written in stone, darling.

• Caitlyn Van Horne : Maybe there's a better way of life for me, one that isn't wrapped up in pride and vanity.

  Margaret Powers : What kind of life might that be, dear?

• Caitlyn Van Horne : I was flipping through the channels the other day when all of a sudden the most beautiful hair caught my eye. It was Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told". And, oh, Mummy, that movie made me realize how empty and shallow my life is.

  Margaret Powers : How, dear?

  Caitlyn Van Horne : Simple. Jesus had a good hair day every day.

• Caitlyn Van Horne : Why don't you break free from the shackles fashioned by wealth and status?

  Margaret Powers : Caitlyn, those are the shackles that straightened your teeth, which got you a husband!

• Margaret Powers : What's this? Why this is the family Bible. I've never actually seen this open.

  Caitlyn Van Horne : Yes, Mummy, I've been reading it. And, you know, it's true what they say. The book is better than the movie!