The Gilded Age (TV Series)
A Long Ladder (2022)
Carrie Coon: Bertha Russell
Quotes
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Bertha Russell : You are a young girl. And I am your mother, and I have every right to know who's corresponding with you.
Gladys Russell : I'm not a girl. I am a woman, whether it suits you or not.
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George Russell : Couldn't she have a maid instead?
Bertha Russell : She has a maid.
George Russell : I mean a real lady's maid that could accompany her when she goes out. Although why that's considered necessary beats me.
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Bertha Russell : Well, I'll see her, I suppose.
Larry Russell : There was a time when you would've run a red carpet to the edge of the sidewalk if you thought Mrs. Charles Fane might pay you a visit.
Bertha Russell : I'm stronger now than I was.
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Bertha Russell : Well, I have said before now that I must begin somewhere.
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Bertha Russell : Does he have money, your Mr. Raikes?
Marian Brook : I don't think so. Not what you would call money.
Bertha Russell : Pity, when he's enjoying himself so much. He may find it hard to keep up without it.
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Bertha Russell : How can you be sure that Mr. McAllister will want to meet me?
Aurora Fane : He's dying to see this house. It's one of the only palaces on the avenue he's never been inside. And...
Bertha Russell : And?
Aurora Fane : He loves money.
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Bertha Russell : I'm to lunch with Mr. McAllister but not with Mrs. Astor?
Aurora Fane : I'm afraid she always wants a list of her fellow guests and seldom agrees to sit at a table with strangers.
Bertha Russell : Especially strangers like me.
Aurora Fane : That's not true. She does let new people in. She has to, or they'll forge an alternative society and keep her and the old crowd out.
Bertha Russell : Won't they anyway?
Aurora Fane : Probably, but not in her time.
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Aurora Fane : He's a sort of henchman to Mrs. Astor. He helps her in her work of shaping society.
Bertha Russell : And Mrs. Astor takes his advice?
Aurora Fane : I don't know that she ever takes advice exactly, but she allows him to help her. He is her amanuensis.
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George Russell : Coroner's verdict on Patrick Morris... suicide.
Bertha Russell : How could he say anything else?
George Russell : They'll blame me.
Bertha Russell : You were strong. He was weak. Who's to blame for that?