Peggy Scott quotes from The Gilded Age

Peggy Scott

If I spent every day fighting with bigots, I'd never get anything done.

Peggy Scott

Bad timing shapes our lives.

Peggy Scott

I don't need money. I'm fed, I'm paid, and I have a place to stay.

Well, I brought you something. You take it.

Peggy Scott

I told you I don't need it.

Don't be silly, I'm your mother, I'm allowed to give you money.

Peggy Scott

What are you doing here? And the shoes, what was that? Because we're colored, we must be poor? I loaned you train fare!

Marian Brook

I made a stupid assumption.

Peggy Scott

And you just showed up at my parents' home!

Marian Brook

What's so wrong about that? My aunt lets you live at her house.

Peggy Scott

Lets me? I work there.

Marian Brook

I know.

Peggy Scott

No you don't know anything! About me, about my life, about my situation. I live in a different country from the one you know!

Marian Brook

Look, I'm sorry.

Peggy Scott

Don't be sorry! Just stop thinking you're really my friend.

What are your thoughts on electricity?

Peggy Scott

Are you talking about Mr. Edison's lights?

Mr. Edison is not solely responsible.

Peggy Scott

Who else was involved?

Namely, Lewis Latimer, a colored inventor. He created a better carbon filament. That's the thing in the bulb that helps keep the lights on, so to speak.

Peggy Scott

Well, I'm sure that Mr. Edison will give Mr. Latimer his due credit at the ceremony.

[laughs] I admire your wit, Miss Scott.

Agnes van Rhijn

Mrs. Russell has fired her maid.

Marian Brook

I'm amazed. She didn't give a hint of it when I was with her.

Ada Brook

You must have been more eloquent than you realized.

Marian Brook

Will you write to her?

Agnes van Rhijn

Of course I won't write to her! She might write back.

Ada Brook

You must acknowledge the letter. She's done what you asked.

Peggy Scott

[entering] Is there anything that you'd like me to do before you get changed?

Agnes van Rhijn

Please thank Mrs. Russell for this note, but without a trace of warmth.

Agnes van Rhijn

You're an impressive young woman. Not everyone will support your ambitions, to say the least of it. But you are strong enough to manage that.

Peggy Scott

Thank you. I'll try to be.

Peggy Scott

Have you told your aunts your secret yet?

Marian Brook

No. But I will.

Peggy Scott

When?

Marian Brook

When I can't keep it secret any longer.

Aurora Fane

I don't think I understood the damage these new laws were doing.

Peggy Scott

You're not alone in that, I'm afraid.