Aunt Ev:
Why, this child has more sense than all these men Kellers, if there's ever any way to reach that mind of hers.
--Kathleen Comegys (as Aunt Ev) in The Miracle Worker
--Kathleen Comegys (as Aunt Ev) in The Miracle Worker
Kate Keller:
She's a defective child! It's not her fault!
Captain Arthur Keller: I didn't say it was her fault!
Kate Keller: Well, I don't know what to do. How can I teach her, beat her till she's black and blue?
Captain Arthur Keller: We can't have her running around loose! There must be some way to confine her!
Kate Keller: Where, in a cage? She's a growing child!
Captain Arthur Keller: Answer me one thing. Is it fair to the baby there?
Kate Keller: Are you willing to put her away? She wants to talk, like me, like you and me. Every day she slips further and further away. I don't know how to call her back.
Aunt Ev: I have a mind to write to Boston myself. If that school can't help her, maybe they'll send somebody who can.
--Kathleen Comegys (as Aunt Ev) in The Miracle Worker
Captain Arthur Keller: I didn't say it was her fault!
Kate Keller: Well, I don't know what to do. How can I teach her, beat her till she's black and blue?
Captain Arthur Keller: We can't have her running around loose! There must be some way to confine her!
Kate Keller: Where, in a cage? She's a growing child!
Captain Arthur Keller: Answer me one thing. Is it fair to the baby there?
Kate Keller: Are you willing to put her away? She wants to talk, like me, like you and me. Every day she slips further and further away. I don't know how to call her back.
Aunt Ev: I have a mind to write to Boston myself. If that school can't help her, maybe they'll send somebody who can.
--Kathleen Comegys (as Aunt Ev) in The Miracle Worker