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Vivie Monologue from Mrs. Warren's Profession

From Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 53 sec

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Sit down: I’m not ready to go back to work yet. . You both think I have an attack of nerves. Not a bit of it. But there are two subjects I want dropped, if you don’t mind. One of them is love’s young dream in any shape or form: the other is the romance and beauty of life, especially Ostend and the gaiety of Brussels. You are welcome to any illusions you may have left on these subjects: I have none. If we three are to remain friends, I must be treated as a woman of business, permanently single and permanently unromantic .

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Vivie asserts her independence and rejects romantic notions, indicating a desire to be seen as a serious professional rather than a woman caught in societal expectations.

20s · determination · identity · power · isolation · ambition

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