20 Memorable Quotes from Grey Gardens

Nov. 6, 2010

By Molly Oswaks info

Molly Oswaks is a freelance writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared or is ...

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Little Edie (right) sits with her mother Edith in a Grey Gardens bedroom.

In 1975, Albert and David Maysles filmed a documentary about the mother/daughter duo inhabiting the dilapidated Long Island manse Grey Gardens. Edith “Little Edie” Beale and Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale – respectively, cousin and aunt of Jackie Kennedy Onassis – lived alone and in squalor, which might be why much of their on-screen dialogue sounds so utterly loony. Here are twenty of the Edie and Edith’s most memorable quotes.

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  • MandyBB

    Have you seen the companion documentary The Beales of Grey Gardens? It has lots of extra footage from the original. They fascinate me, especially Little Edie. Staunch woman indeed!

    • http://twitter.com/MollyWest12th Molly Oswaks

      Yes, I own it! I love it!

  • http://twitter.com/rislynsey christopher lynsey

    This is cool, Molly.

    • http://twitter.com/MollyWest12th Molly Oswaks

      Thanks, Chris. You're cool, too.

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    I really enjoyed this. Such a wonderful film.

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