The OA (TV Series)

Homecoming (2016)

Phyllis Smith: Elizabeth 'Betty' Broderick-Allen

Quotes 

• Elizabeth 'Betty' Broderick-Allen : I'm here to teach the kids that want to learn, the kids that have a desire to better themselves. And if a disruptive, violent, and frankly, terrible student causes me problems, that's fine, I can handle that. But when he costs the hard-working students their right to an education, that's when I say no more. I think he has real psychological issues.

  Prairie Johnson : Well, it's not really a measure of mental health to be well-adjusted in a society that's very sick.

  Elizabeth 'Betty' Broderick-Allen : That's a very clever bumper sticker, Mrs. Winchell, but I'm going to remove your son from this school.

• Prairie Johnson : This dimension is crumbling to violence and pettiness and greed, and Steve is sensitive enough to feel it and he's angry. He's angry and he's lost. And in order to find him, you'd have to teach yourself again and you decided somewhere along the way that you were done learning. It's... it's too painful to stay open.

  Elizabeth 'Betty' Broderick-Allen : Well, I think we all face the same hopelessness Mrs. Winchell. It's what we decide to do with it.

  Prairie Johnson : You're right. So what are you gonna do?