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A Taste of Honey - Quotes
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- 1Helen: Children owe their parents these little attentions. Jo: I don't owe you a thing.Helen and Jo
Act 1 Scene 1 - 2Helen: She can't do a thing for herself, that girl. Mind you don't gas yourself.Helen to Jo
Act 1 scene 1 - 3Helen: You're not very fond of work, are you? Jo: No, I take after you.Helen and Jo
Act 1 Scene 1 - 4Helen: You're wasting yourself. Jo: So long as I don't waste anybody else.Helen and Jo
Act 1 Scene 1 - 5Helen: I'm a free lance. Besides, I'm thinking of giving it up.Helen on prostitution
Act 1 Scene 1 - 6Jo: ...whatever else she may be, she isn't prejudiced against colour.Jo, about Helen, to Boy
Act 1 Scene 2 - 7Boy: Women never have young minds. they are born three thousand years old.Boy, to Jo.
Act 1 Scene 2 - 8Helen: I'd put you on films. Jo: I'd sooner be on't streets. It's more honest.Helen and Jo
Act 1 Scene 2 - 9Jo: Hello, Daddy.Jo to Peter
Act 1 Scene 2 - 10Jo: I’m not planning big plans for this baby, or dreaming big dreams.Jo to Geof
Act 2 Scene 1 - 11Jo: Why don't you leave me alone?Jo to Geof
Act 2 Scene 1 - 12Helen: bearing a child doesn't place one under an obligation to it.Helen to Jo
Act 2 Scene 1 - 13Peter: His name was Oedipus, he was a Greek I think. Well, the old bag turned out to be his motherPeter explains the story of Oedipus
Act 2 Scene 1 - 14Jo: You know I used to try and hold my mother's hands, but she always used to pull them away from me.Jo to Geof
Act 2 Scene 2 - 15Jo: I feel as though I could take care of the whole world. I even feel as though I could take care of you, too!Jo to Helen
Act 2 Scene 2 - 16Jo: mind you don't gas yourself.Jo to Helen
Act 2 Scene 2
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- These flashcards contain some of the more memorable and pertinent quotations from Shelagh Delaney's dialogue in A Taste of Honey
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