East Side, West Side (1949)

Nancy Reagan: Helen Lee

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• Helen Lee : All right, Jess. Would you like me to go now? Or, shall I say and make what's known as girl talk: clothes, gossip, the high price of this-and-that?

  Jessie Bourne : Helen, you're angry.

  Helen Lee : Yes, about the lies that are told about women! That they aren't capable of affection for one another and honest friendship. Because the terrible part is that women believe these lies. I'm concerned about and I'm afraid to ask. I'm afraid you'll think I'm prying. And, yet, if I don't ask - what kind of a friend am I?

• Helen Lee : You've never talked about it, Jess, and...

  Jessie Bourne : There's a kind of trouble you hate to think anyone knows about it. It's like knowing a safety pin's holding up your petticoat. You're ashamed, but - oh well, the petticoat is mended now.

  Helen Lee : Is it?

• Helen Lee : Some men don't think its love unless its full of anger and conflict.