Ship of Fools (1965)
Elizabeth Ashley: Jenny Brown
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Quotes
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Jenny Brown : David's an artist. A wonderful one. He's caught up with social conscience right now, but he'll get over that.
Mary Treadwell : Is it serious?
Jenny Brown : I never felt about anybody the way I do about David. Only that David thinks a woman should follow three paces behind - with slippers.
Mary Treadwell : Men usually do. My husband certainly did.
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Jenny Brown : I think I've been happiest when I was dancing... sometimes I wish that I'd tied a tape measure to my ankle when I danced all my life - then I could tell you how many miles I traveled when I was happiest.
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David : What's the matter?
Jenny Brown : Twenty-six days in separate beds. It's probably a very good thing. We'll get to know each other. We'll find out whether we have anything going for us besides sex.
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Jenny Brown : My mother's never been satisfied with it. She taught me that a woman had to have something of her very own outside of her husband; otherwise, it was bridge games and one day a week at the hospital.
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Mary Treadwell : Oh, we put up a wonderful front in public. We were everybody's favorite couple, but, in private, it was something else again. He was jealous of me. So jealous of me, that he hit me. He hit me till I bled at the nose.
Jenny Brown : I wonder whether David would beat me.
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Jenny Brown : You never were any good at that! It has a zipper, remember?
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Jenny Brown : I can't be what you want me to be. And I know what you need. You need someone just to be there, just to deny herself for you. Oh, David, I wish I could be like that, but I can't. I just can't!
David : Jenny, I know you can.
Jenny Brown : Well, it means leaving me with nothing. You know, nothing.
David : Jenny, do you know what I need? I need something very simple. I need a woman. But that's so difficult for you, isn't it? You're so full of competition. Do you know how empty it is, how frustrating it is, to reach out for something, and then you find it isn't there?
