Call the Midwife (TV Series)

Episode #9.6 (2020)

Vanessa Redgrave: Mature Jennifer Worth

Quotes 

• Mature Jennifer Worth : [opening monologue]  Some seeds are more predictable than others. We plant them, and they send up shoots; we water them and then we watch them grow. They reward us with abundance, with joy, with pleasure in the rhythms of life itself. Water them and they will flourish, nurture them and they will thrive. Love and light and rain and air are all they need.

• Mature Jennifer Worth : [ending monologue]  Flowers take many forms. Each one has its story and its roots. Each one unfurls from its boughed woods kernel, revealing itself in all its promise as it will. Each is entirely precious and unique. Each is the best, and the only. Each will linger in the mind. Each will teach us what it is to love, to be torn, to nurture, and let go. Not every garden blooms as we expected. Despite our care, not every child can thrive. Tears take the place of rain, and the sunshine fails us. But the buds, however delicate, were perfect. They were real, and their fleeting scent will live forever on the air.