Dickinson
Fridays on Apple TV+Dickinson Season 2 Episode 2: "Fame is a fickle food" Quotes
Henry: No one can know.
Emily: I won’t tell a soul. I promise. Henry, can I ask you something? If you could put your name on what you wrote, would you?
Henry: I guess I would. Who wouldn’t?
Lavinia: I don’t even know if I believe in monogamy. Why should I have to be with one person and one person only for the rest of my life?
Jane: You won’t be if your husband dies.
Lavinia: Yes, but it’s bigger than that. I think marriage is a patriarchal system designed to make women less autonomous. You become your husband’s property. You have to bare his children. You even have to take his name. What if I don’t want a last name? What if I just want to be Vinny, a symbol?
Emily: These are such brave questions.
Lavinia: I learned from the best.
Emily: Sue, I want to be published.
Sue: You do?
Emily: Yes. I have to be published or I’ll die.
Sue: This is quite a change from yesterday.
Emily: I had a vision, a terrible, terrible vision of what it would mean to be anonymous. I don’t want to disappear from this earth without anybody knowing who I am. I have this demon in my mind that keeps trying to stop, but I won’t let it. I don’t want to be a nobody.
Sue: That is exactly what I have been trying to tell you.