Ellen and Therapist in “Unfinished Business”

Ellen

I don’t know, I thought if I just ignored it, it would just go away and I could live a normal life.

And what is a normal life, Ellen?

Ellen

I don’t know. Normal. I mean, just the same thing everybody wants, someone to … A house with a picket fence, a dog, a cat, Sunday barbecues. Someone to love, someone who loves me. Someone I can build a life with. I just want to be happy.

And you think you can’t have these things with a woman?

Ellen

Well, society has a pretty big problem with it. There are a lot of people out there who think people like me are sick. Oh God, why did I ever rent Personal Best.

You can’t blame this on the media, Ellen. It isn’t going to be easy. No one has it easy.

Ellen

You don’t understand. Do you think I want to be discriminated against? Do you think that I want people calling me names to my face?

To have people commit hate crimes against you because you’re not like them?

Ellen

Thank you!

To have to use separate bathrooms and separate water fountains and sit in the back of the bus?

Ellen

Oh, man, we have to use separate water fountains?