A character in Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Joan Brandwyn quotes from Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Julia Stiles

Scenes with Joan Brandwyn

3 scenes
Joan Brandwyn

It was my choice... not to go. He would have supported it.

Katherine Watson

But you don't have to choose.

Joan Brandwyn

No, I have to. I want a home; I want a family, that's not something I'll sacrifice.

Katherine Watson

No-one's asking you to sacrifice that, Joan, I just want you to understand you can do both.

Joan Brandwyn

Do you think I'll wake up one morning and regret not being a lawyer?

Katherine Watson

Yes, I'm afraid that you will.

Joan Brandwyn

Not as much as I regret not having a family, not being there to raise them. I know exactly what I'm doing and it doesn't make me any less smart.

Joan Brandwyn
[Katherine looks down]

This must seem terrible to you.

Katherine Watson

I didn't say that.

Joan Brandwyn

Sure you did. You always do. You stand in class and tell us to look beyond the image, but you don't. To you a housewife is someone who sold her soul for a center hall colonial. She has no depth, no intellect, no interests. You're the one who said I could do anything I wanted. This is what I want.

Katherine Watson
[hugs Joan]

Congratulations. Be happy.

Connie Baker

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

Joan Brandwyn
[to Giselle]

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
[Looking over Joan's file]

Pre-law? Well... have you decided which law school you're going to?

Joan Brandwyn

Well, I haven't really thought much about it. After Wellesley, I plan on getting married.

Katherine Watson

And then what?

Joan Brandwyn
[confused]

And then... I'll be married.

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