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Mary North
Rosemary’s mother, twice widowed, is quite accustomed to hardship. Relatively poor after the death of her second husband, Mrs. Speers industriously seizes upon her young daughter’s blooming good looks, deciding to put Rosemary to work in the movie industry. The mother and daughter are extremely close, and Rosemary tells her mother everything. When Rosemary confesses that she’s in love with Dick, for example, Mrs. Speers encourages her to explore her feelings, even though she knows that Dick is already married to Nicole.
Mrs. Elsie Speers Quotes in Tender Is the Night
The Tender Is the Night quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Elsie Speers or refer to Mrs. Elsie Speers. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 9
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“You were brought up to work—not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first nut to crack and it’s a good nut—go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him—whatever happens it can’t spoil you because economically you’re a boy, not a girl.”
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Book 1, Chapter 17
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They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.
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Mrs. Elsie Speers Quotes in Tender Is the Night
The Tender Is the Night quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Elsie Speers or refer to Mrs. Elsie Speers. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 9
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“You were brought up to work—not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first nut to crack and it’s a good nut—go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him—whatever happens it can’t spoil you because economically you’re a boy, not a girl.”
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Book 1, Chapter 17
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They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.
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