It's a moving play, but, more than that, I think, it has a lesson today for every woman. It shows the necessity of holding on to one's ideals.
11 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:55:14 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- For your father was an emperor of China. Your mother, a Queen of India.
- And this is our land forever... and our love.
- The storm and passion of Wuthering Heights fade into the dimness of a hundred years ago.
- We're back in the present, with Barbara Stanwyck, Brian Aherne and Ida Lupino at our microphones.
- But it seems to me that they all look just a little bit stirred by the drama they just brought us.
- Mm, on the contrary. I think women are less likely than men to sidetrack their ideals.
- Well, whatever Cathy's faults, she was one of the most real characters I've ever come across.
- What about it, Brian? You've been there.
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