Saint Frances (2019)

Mary Beth Fisher: Carol

Quotes 

• Bridget : What if I was one of those moms who went crazy, and drowned her kids in a bathtub?

  Carol : Those are the extreme cases. It usually doesn't get that far. When you were a baby and you screamed and screamed, and there was nothing I could do to get you to stop, I'd imagine taking you by the ankles, and swinging your little head into the head into the wall over and over until it was a bloody pulp.

  Bridget : Oh, my God.

  Carol : But then I'd feel so guilty from imagining it, I wouldn't actually do it.

  Bridget : I don't know that you should tell that story.

  Carol : It's the truth and women should talk about it more often. Wouldn't be as lonely.

• Bridget : I think it's immoral to have children.

  Carol : Immoral to have children?

  Bridget : Yes, with climate change and school shootings, and possible nuclear war. It's bringing them into a world that's inhospitable.

  Carol : Oh, please, the world has always been inhospitable. When I got pregnant with you, it was the 80s. Every day Reagan joked about nuking Russia, but we survived. I gambled on our survival. That's what having kids is.

  Bridget : That's reckless.

  Carol : That's optimistic. Are you glad you were born?

  Bridget : I don't know.

  Carol : Now see, that's lazy. I expected that when you were a teenager, but you're an adult with a fully formed prefrontal cortex. Actually think about it. I know you didn't ask to be, but if you had the choice to never exist at all, or to have the exact life you're having now, would you have chosen to be born?