Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Moira Kelly: Beatrice Venier

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• Beatrice Venier : Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? "In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body." She doesn't believe it yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence.

• Beatrice Venier : When my daughter is old enough, I want you to make her a courtesan.

  Veronica Franco : I will not pimp your daughter.

  Beatrice Venier : Look at the life you live! The freedom that you have. Will you deny my daughter the same chance?

• Veronica Franco : My cage seems bigger than yours, but it's still a cage.

  Beatrice Venier : If you want sympathy from me, you won't get it.

  Veronica Franco : I don't want your sympathy.