Women Talking (film)

"Hope for the unknown is good. It is better than hatred of the familiar."

"Why does love - the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love - result in so much violence?"

"Surely, there must be something worth living for in this life, not only in the next."

"When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are."

"I will destroy any living thing that harms my child. I will tear it limb from limb. I will desecrate its body and I will bury it alive. I will challenge God on the spot to strike me dead if I have sinned by protecting my child from evil, and my destroying that evil that it may not harm another. I will lie, I will hunt, I will kill. I will dance on graves and I will burn forever in hell before I allow another man to satisfy his violent urges with the body of my four year old child."

"I cannot forgive them. I will never forgive them."

"We know we were made to sleep with cow tranquilizer!"

"I will become a murderer if I stay."

"We do not need to be forgiven by the men of God for protecting our children from the depraved actions of vicious men, who are often the very same men we're meant to ask for forgiveness."

"It was a yes or no question. You shit like any other man, why don't you talk like one?"

"[narrating] We didn't talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror."

"Sometimes I think people laugh as hard as they'd like to cry."

"We saw our bodies from above, not knowing if this was how God saw us, or because we didn't want to be in them."

"The attacks were originally attributed to ghosts and demons. When the women woke up feeling drowsy and in pain, their bodies bruised and bleeding, many believed they were being made to suffer as punishment for their sins. Many accused the women of lying for attention or to cover up adultery."

"They said later, it should have taken longer to pack up a whole life. It was disappointing to realize that everything that ever mattered to you could be gathered up in a few short hours."

"[to Ona's baby] Your story will be different from ours."

"Forgiveness can look like permission."

"We have been preyed upon like animals. Maybe we should respond like animals."

"Leaving is how we demonstrate our faith. We are leaving because our faith is stronger than the rules. Bigger than our life."

"If we do not forgive these men, we give up our place in Heaven."

"Rooney Mara - Ona"

"Claire Foy - Salome"

"Jessie Buckley - Mariche"

"Judith Ivey - Agata"

"Ben Whishaw - August"

"Frances McDormand - Scarface Janz"

"Sheila McCarthy - Greta"

"Michelle McLeod - Mejal"

"Kate Hallett - Autje"

"Liv McNeil - Neitje"

"August Winter - Melvin"

"Kira Guloien - Anna"

"Shayla Brown - Helena"

"Nathaniel McParland - Aaron"

"Eli Ham - Klaas"

"Emily Mitchell - Miep"