Call the Midwife (TV Series)

Episode #3.2 (2014)

Vanessa Redgrave: Mature Jenny

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Mature Jenny : [narrating]  Our work was birth, *the* primal act of a woman's life, a time fuelled by instinct and by fear. Trusting our instinct can be what we fear most. Our actions are ours alone, and we must suffer their consequences.

• Mature Jenny : [narrating]  On one piece of paper, Doris crammed the love she hoped would last a lifetime. All that she would miss, the first tooth, the first day of school, the talks they would have had, the love they would have shared. She trusted in God that Carole would have a good life with good people, who would give her daughter the future she couldn't. More than anything, she wished she could have kept her, because whatever anyone else might feel, it couldn't be what Doris felt. Her daughter was of and from her. They were a part of each other and always would be.

• Mature Jenny : [narrating]  The beginning of life drove us to be strong throughout it, and to accept the consequences our actions brought us. In those acts of instinct and courage we found a freedom, and it made us bold. It made us believe we could change the world. And in our own small ways, we did.