Dr. Jaquith: My dear Mrs. Vale, if you had deliberately and maliciously planned to destroy your daughter's life, you couldn't have done it more completely.
Mrs. Vale: How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
Dr. Jaquith: A mother's rights? Twaddle. A child has rights. A person has rights to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own particular soil.
Mrs. Vale: Are we getting into botany, Doctor? Are we flowers?
Mrs. Vale: How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
Dr. Jaquith: A mother's rights? Twaddle. A child has rights. A person has rights to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own particular soil.
Mrs. Vale: Are we getting into botany, Doctor? Are we flowers?
Dr. Jaquith : My dear Mrs. Vale, if you had deliberately and maliciously planned to destroy your daughter's life, you couldn't have done it more completely.
Mrs. Vale : How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
Dr. Jaquith : A mother's rights? Twaddle. A child has rights. A person has rights to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own particular soil.
Mrs. Vale : Are we getting into botany, Doctor? Are we flowers?
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