These flashcards contain some of the more memorable and pertinent quotations from Shelagh Delaney's dialogue in A Taste of Honey
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Helen: Children owe their parents these little attentions.
Jo: I don't owe you a thing.
Helen: She can't do a thing for herself, that girl. Mind you don't gas yourself.
Helen: You're not very fond of work, are you?
Jo: No, I take after you.
Helen: You're wasting yourself.
Jo: So long as I don't waste anybody else.
Helen: I'm a free lance. Besides, I'm thinking of giving it up.
Jo: ...whatever else she may be, she isn't prejudiced against colour.
Boy: Women never have young minds. they are born three thousand years old.
Helen: I'd put you on films.
Jo: I'd sooner be on't streets. It's more honest.
Jo: Hello, Daddy.
Jo: I’m not planning big plans for this baby, or dreaming big dreams.
Jo: Why don't you leave me alone?
Helen: bearing a child doesn't place one under an obligation to it.
Peter: His name was Oedipus, he was a Greek I think. Well, the old bag turned out to be his mother
Jo: You know I used to try and hold my mother's hands, but she always used to pull them away from me.
Jo: I feel as though I could take care of the whole world. I even feel as though I could take care of you, too!
Jo: mind you don't gas yourself.
