Daphne quotes from Party of Five

Daphne

Do you know why I said yes to you Charlie when you asked me to have this baby? It was you. It was this look in your eyes. It was how badly you wanted it and how badly I wanted to give it to you.

Daphne

I thought I could just walk away. But no matter how far away I walk, the baby's still there.

Daphne

It's like I'm this alien pod or this receptacle, you know, and the only thing that matters is what I'm carrying.

Daphne

[to Charlie] I'm not a mother. Why did you call this baby Diana? Because that was your mother's name. And why was she your mother? Because she squeezed you out? No, it's because she loved you and because she wanted you. Because she stuck around your whole damn life and she bathed you and dressed you and raised you. And that is not me. It's just not. Someday, maybe, but not today.

Daphne

How can I relax with half the hospital down my shirt? Okay, I get more privacy twirling pasties at a shore leave party.

Daphne

A person, a parent, who doesn't love their kids, they have kids who grow up the same. And so on, and so on. And that feels bad, mom, to me. That... that feels really really bad.

Daphne

[to her daughter] Someday you'll go to New York and Paris, not that I've ever been to either, but you will. And there'll be all these French guys. But you'll know how to take care of yourself. I'm not worried about you at all. And then college is a big thing. And you're gonna be college material -- definitely. And you'll wear one of those business suits and you'll carry one of those, like pocket book/briefcase things that cost like a thousand bucks, and you'll be like a lawyer or something, yeah. And Charlie'll be so proud. Poor Charlie.

Daphne

See, it's not... it's not that my mother abandoned me, it's that she did it when I was old enough to understand. It's like she gave me this disease, that she passed on to me, but see, I've stopped it, as of right now, I have stopped it. But if I go home, and I go in therapy, and I try to get well, and all this time I convince Diana to depend on me, and then I FAIL, then I will have given my daughter what my mother passed on to me.

Daphne

So, you beat the big C! I mean, now what? Join the Peace Corps? Shave your head?

Charlie

Well, I thought I'd do another load of whites.

Charlie

What the devil have I done with my slippers?

Daphne

Here are your slippers! And there, take your slippers and may never a day's luck with them.

Charlie

What on earth?! What did you throw those slippers at me for?

Charlie

You have an unusual occupation, Daphne. They are curious.

Daphne

Like people are curious about mad cow disease... I want you to let them know that I have other incredible qualities besides being able to unsnap my bra with my teeth.

Charlie

I was thinking maybe we could name her Diana.

Daphne

As in Princess?

Charlie

As in my mother.

Daphne

Oh. Wow. Well, that's gonna kinda be a problem for me, Charlie, because my next-door neighbor growing up, her name was Diana, Diana Didario, and we would call her the Italian Sub, and everytime I hear the name Diana I think of this extremely fat girl who shaved my dog because I wouldn't give her my Twinkie.

Charlie

My parents had five kids.

Daphne

Are you just realizing that now?

Charlie

Five. How did they manage that?

Daphne

They had sex a lot?

Daphne

You get a 6-minute credit. Which, actually, when you figure in my 15 minute credit from, you know, handling the spitup on your shift, that works out to be a 9-minute credit in my favor.

Charlie

You claim you can't balance a checkbook.

Daphne

You thought that once Diana was born, that I would just have to look into that tiny little face, with your hazel eyes and my crooked chin, and that would be it, and that we would just live happily ever after. And, you know something, Charlie, deep down inside, I thought the same thing. But that is not happening. Charlie?

Charlie

She's crying.

Daphne

See, I didn't even hear her.