Iron Jawed Angels Quotes

Iron Jawed Angels is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Iron Jawed Angels ended in 1970.

It features James Bigwood, Laura McCorkindale, and Denise Pinckley as producer, Reinhold Heil, and Johnny Klimek in charge of musical score, and Robbie Greenberg as head of cinematography.

Iron Jawed Angels is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Iron Jawed Angels is 125 minutes long. Iron Jawed Angels is distributed by HBO Films.

The cast includes: Hilary Swank as Alice Paul, Molly Parker as Emily Leighton, Patrick Dempsey as Ben Weissman, Frances O'Connor as Lucy Burns, Julia Ormond as Inez Mulholland, Brooke Smith as Mabel Vernon, and Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt.

Iron Jawed Angels Quotes

Frances O'Connor as Lucy Burns

• (Frances O'Connor) "Tell me what you did. If you do anything to hurt that girl. Do you hear me?"

• (Frances O'Connor) "I don't think she is a woman. Seriously, has anyone seen her naked?"

• (Frances O'Connor) "We're political prisoners. We wear our own clothes."
• (Matron Herndon) "You'll wear what they all wear."
• (Frances O'Connor) "I want to see the warden."
• (Matron Herndon) "You want to see him naked?"

• (Frances O'Connor) "To pay the fine would be admitting guilt. We haven't broken a law. Not one dollar."

• (Frances O'Connor) "Don't argue with me. You're mama duck, we follow you. If you go down, they'll scatter. Use your head."

• (Frances O'Connor) "Do me a favor, don't question Susan's thoughts on cheese. We worked side by side with Susan. We worked cheek to cheek with Susan. She despised cheddar and she loathed Muenster."

• (Frances O'Connor) "I can see it now. I'm gonna end up back in Brooklyn with a hairless cat. Called Lester."

• (Frances O'Connor) "Don't you ever want to get married?"
• (Hilary Swank) "I'm busy that day."

Hilary Swank as Alice Paul

• (Hilary Swank) "We're legitimate citizens. We're taxed without representation. We're not allowed to serve on juries so we're not tried by our peers. It's unconscionable, not to mention unconstitutional. We don't make the laws but we have to obey them like children."

• (Movie patron) "Would you please be quiet?"
• (Hilary Swank) "My sister is blind; I have to read her the subtitles."
• (Frances O'Connor) "That's it, you've ruined it. We're leaving."

• (Dr. White) "You refuse to eat. Can you tell me why?"
• (Hilary Swank) "The hunger strike was a tradition in Old Ireland. You starve yourself on someone's doorstep until restitution is made. And justice is done."
• (Dr. White) "Doesn't sound like a very effective method."
• (Hilary Swank) "A stinking corpse on your doorstep? What will the neighbours say?"
• (Dr. White) "So you stand on the president's doorstep. He's treated you very badly, hasen't he?"
• (Hilary Swank) "It's the law that treats women badly."
• (Dr. White) "But you picketed President Wilson, he's the one that put you here."
• (Hilary Swank) "We picketed the office of the presidency. It has nothing to do with Mr Wilson and everything to do with the position he holds."
• (Dr. White) "But he's responsible for your treatment here."
• (Hilary Swank) "I believe I was sent here by a district commissioner."
• (Dr. White) "You call yourself a suffragist."
• (Hilary Swank) "Yes."
• (Dr. White) "Tell me about your cause. Just talk freely. Explain yourself. Do you understand the question?"
• (Hilary Swank) "You asked me to explain myself. I just wonder what needs to be explained. Let me be very clear. Look into your own heart. I swear to you, mine's no different. You want a place in the trades and professions where you can earn your bread? So do I. You want some means of self expression? Some way of satisfying your own personal ambitions? So do I. You want a voice in the government in which you live? So do I. What is there to explain?"

• (Hilary Swank) "When you're alone, you can make any choice you want. But when someone loves you, you lose that right. I won't give anything away 'til we have it all. I can't."

• (Hilary Swank) "It's warm in here. Can you open a window?"
• (Matron Herndon) "Get to work."
• (Hilary Swank) "Can't you see she looks faint? All I ask is that you open a window."
• (Frances O'Connor) "Matron, my needle broke. Can I have another?"
• (Hilary Swank) "That's better, isn't it?"
• (Matron Herndon) "Put her in solitary."

• (Hilary Swank) "I'm having dinner with Helen Keller."
• (Patrick Dempsey) "Don't stare, she hates that."

• (Hilary Swank) "Helen Keller's in town. Arrange for me to meet her."
• (Hilary Swank) "No I don't know what hotel."
• (Hilary Swank) "Well she's deaf and blind. If she found it, I'm sure you can."

Molly Parker as Emily Leighton

• (Molly Parker) "I really don't follow politics, Ms. Burns. I haven't the head for it."
• (Frances O'Connor) "We're citizens or we're chattle: you don't really need a degree from Harvard to figure that out."

• (Senator Leighton) "I don't know a judge in this district that will give you custody right now."
• (Molly Parker) "You won't take my children."
• (Senator Leighton) "And how are you going to stop me? Can you afford an attorney?"
• (Molly Parker) "An attorney? To prove what? That I'm their mother? What will your judge say? That this is your house and your children? What am I to you, Tom, in your house? Chattel? This is how you punish me? I am their mother. They are not your children to take."

Brooke Smith as Mabel Vernon

• (Brooke Smith) "We are called the Iron Jawed Angels. Is that supposed to be an insult? Oh, and Carrie Catt told the Times that we were no better than anarchists and draft dodgers."

Julia Ormond as Inez Mulholland

• (Julia Ormond) "Men plan. God laughs."
• (Hilary Swank) "I'm not a man."
• (Julia Ormond) "Ever wish you were?"
• (Hilary Swank) "Once, when I saw my brother peeing his name in the snow."

Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt

• (Anjelica Huston) "This will get out to the foreign press. You can tell the President that he can look like a damn fool or he can deal me in."

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