The Thorn Birds (1983)
Jean Simmons: Fiona 'Fee' Cleary
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Quotes
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Ralph de Bricassart : Fee, she's your daughter. It's as if you never remember that.
Fiona 'Fee' Cleary : Does any woman? What's a daughter? Just a reminder of the pain... a younger version of oneself... who will do all the same things, cry the same tears. No, Father. I try to forget I have a daughter.
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Dane O'Neill : Mom, is this you? Oh, you were beautiful.
Meggie Cleary : Were? Oh the cruelty of youth.
Fiona 'Fee' Cleary : It was a lovely dress. Blue wasn't it?
Meggie Cleary : No, Mum, yours was blue.
Ralph de Bricassart : Meggie's dress was rose. "Ashes of Roses", it was called. And in it, she was the most beautiful thing any of us had ever seen.
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Ralph de Bricassart : What kind of man is this Luke O'Neill, who roams about and doesn't even make a home for Meggie?
Fiona 'Fee' Cleary : The ambitious kind.
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Ralph de Bricassart : Poor little Meggie. It must be hard being the only girl.
Fiona 'Fee' Cleary : But I've been blessed with sons, these and the two I've buried. It's her sons a mother thinks of, isn't it?
[yells out to Meggie in the field]
Fiona 'Fee' Cleary : Meggie don't dawdle! You've got the chickens to feed!
