Lou Grant (TV Series)

Inheritance (1980)

Linda Kelsey: Billie Newman

Quotes 

• Lou Grant : Don't you talk to your mother? She's sleeping in your living room.

  Billie Newman : I can't talk to her about these things, Lou, she's old fashioned.

  Lou Grant : Slip her a note at the dinner table, that way you won't have to say it out loud.

• Billie Newman : Lou, I've got to to South Dakota.

  Lou Grant : Have you ever been to South Dakota this time of year?

  Billie Newman : I grew up there, remember?

  Lou Grant : Then you should know better.

• Mrs. Pynchon : You know, I read your story on the DES daughter, I thought it was well handled. You really made me see the suffering those two women went through.

  Billie Newman : Well, that's my job.

  Mrs. Pynchon : But I find it hard believing I'm talking to the writer of that article...

  Billie Newman : Why?

  Mrs. Pynchon : Because you could understand that mother so well, but you can't see what your own mother's going through.