Connie Baker quotes from Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

My parents say my future is right on the horizon.

Connie Baker

Tell them the horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.

Connie Baker

And, it was perfect, romantic, we stayed up all night, talking.

Joan Brandwyn

You're late, what happened to Sunday brunch?

Giselle Levy

We stayed up all night, too. Not talking.

Connie Baker

The psychoanalyst again.

Giselle Levy

Divine exhaustion.

Katherine Watson: Slide. Contemporary art.

Connie Baker

Now that's just an advertisement.

Katherine Watson

Quiet! Today you just listen. What will the future scholars see when they study us? A portrait of woman today? There you are ladies. The perfect likeness of a Welesley graduate, Magna **** Laude doing exactly what she was trained to do. Slide. A Rhodes scholar. I wonder is she reciting Chaucer while she presses her husband's shirts. Slide. Heh, now you physics major's can calculate the mass and volume of every meat loaf you ever make. Slide. A girdle to set you free! What does that mean?... What does that mean?... What does it mean? I give up. You win. The smartest women in the country... I didn't realize that by demanding excellence I would be challenging... what did it say?

Katherine Watson

what did it say? um... the roles you were born to fill

Katherine Watson

is that right? the roles you were born to fill?... It's, uh, it's my mistake.

Katherine Watson

Class dismissed.