- A little bit.
Just a little bit.
(yawns) Why don't you just open a little wider and swallow the whole book?
I'm kind of a tough broad, you know.
In many ways I'm also a pushover.
The only way you can conduct a lifetime of work is by having those qualities.
They enable you to maintain a certain level, and for those qualities, I'm very thankful I have them.
- Whilst, you, of course, are always entirely open to reason and never afraid to admit you're in the wrong.
I think he's very open, and he wears his heart on his sleeve and he's full of life.
And I feel I connect to all of those things about him.
- Over the course of my life, and over the course of my knowing the novel, I have identified with Jo and Amy and Meg at different points.
- I think we're all a combination of them.
- Yeah.
- I really connected with her passion.
Her passion for her family.
The responsibility that she felt in terms of loving her family well.
Being a brave and reliable sister and daughter.
It's always been a really important thing to me.
- I see my life in hers.
You know, suddenly finding myself not a young person anymore.
I'm not, you know, the young kind of person full of wild passions and ideas and ambitions to do things that I would like to have thought of myself as being when I was younger.
I'm now somebody who's responsible for the lives of others, and my struggle, as Marmee's is, is to be calm, and temperate, and fair, and wise.
