Call the Midwife (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2012)

Judy Parfitt: Sister Monica Joan

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Quotes 

• [Jenny is describing her visit to a pregnant woman who has 24 children and lives in squalid conditions] 

  Jenny Lee : I didn't know where to turn or how to take my leave. They seemed completely unconcerned.

  Cynthia Miller : About the pregnancy or the mess?

  Jenny Lee : The pregnancy *and* the mess. They only had eyes for each other.

  Sister Monica Joan : Exactly. And look where it's got them!

  Jenny Lee : And how can anyone have 24 children and still look so young?

  Trixie Franklin : *Now* you've opened a lovely jar of worms.

  Sister Bernadette : Because she was fourteen when she had her first.

  Sister Julienne : She may even have been younger. Mr Warren brought her back from the Spanish Civil War.

  Sister Bernadette : Most men would be happy with some enemy binoculars!

• Sister Monica Joan : [riding bicycles]  There are between 80 and 100 babies born each month in Poplar. Soon as one vacates its pram, another one takes its place. And thus it was and ever shall be, until such time as they invent a magic potion to put a stop to it.