1:08:02
just because their real friends happen
to be pretty and have a very high IQ.
1:08:06
- Look, I know I'm kind of nothing...
- You're not.
1:08:11
You're the bravest,
most loyal person I know.
1:08:15
And don't ever say again
that you're fat and ugly.
1:08:19
- How about stupid?
- That you can say.
1:08:22
- Stop crying.
- Who's crying?
1:08:25
I happen to have a very advanced case
of soggy eyeballs.
1:08:29
It's catching.
1:08:31
- You know what?
- What?
1:08:34
- I feel good.
- Me, too.
1:08:40
You're behaving like a child, Sister.
1:08:42
I'm sorry. But I just don't understand.
1:08:47
I thought I was close to Marvel Ann,
to all the girls.
1:08:50
And you are. Possibly just a little too close.
1:08:53
Perhaps that's why she felt
she couldn't confide in you.
1:08:56
You see, Sister,
you've put yourself on the girls' level...
1:08:59
and that's fine, but only to a point.
1:09:01
Because if we, or their parents,
or adults generally, are on their level...
1:09:05
then who are they going to go to
when they're really in trouble?
1:09:08
Do you mean Marvel Ann
couldn't talk to me?
1:09:11
Couldn't come to me for understanding?
1:09:13
Sister, when a 4-year-old gets hurt...
1:09:15
he doesn't go running to his friend
for consolation.
1:09:18
- He goes crying home to mother.
- Marvel Ann isn't four years old.
1:09:22
But she's still a child, and in that respect,
most of us remain children.
1:09:26
She was hurt and upset, and she didn't
want a friend, she wanted a mother.
1:09:31
- Are you saying I've failed with the girls?
- No.
1:09:35
You're a smashing success
with the girls, on their level...
1:09:38
and if you don't change,
that's where you'll remain.
1:09:41
They need and want more than that from us.
1:09:43
If it's wrong for me
to be on the same level with the girls...
1:09:48
then it's equally wrong for you to be
so far above them you can't be reached.
1:09:52
I know you're upset.
1:09:54
You enjoy the nun mystique, don't you,
Mother, as it places you above the ordinary?
1:09:58
- It makes you something special.
- Don't say things you'll regret.