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Angie
Kit is a twelve-year-old girl who is a friend and neighbor of Angie’s. Though Kit is young, she is cruel and aggressive, and spars verbally and physically with Angie. Kit seems to feel coerced into her friendship with Angie, and tells Angie to her face that she is odd for wanting to hang out with someone four years her junior, and a bad influence to boot. Nevertheless, Kit seems to be very much in Angie’s thrall, and when Joyce attempts to speak ill of Angie to Kit, Kit declares that she loves Angie.
Kit Quotes in Top Girls
The Top Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Kit or refer to Kit. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act One, Scene Three
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ANGIE: I’m going to London. To see my aunt.
KIT: And what?
ANGIE: That’s it.
KIT: I see my aunt all the time.
ANGIE: I don’t see my aunt.
KIT: What’s so special?
ANGIE: It is special. She’s special.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: She is.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: She is.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: My mother hates her.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: Because she does.
KIT: Perhaps she’s not very nice.
ANGIE: She is nice.
KIT: How do you know?
ANGIE: Because I know her.
KIT: You said you never see her.
ANGIE: I saw her last year. You saw her.
KIT: Did I?
ANGIE: Never mind.
KIT: I remember her. That aunt. What’s so special?
ANGIE: She gets people jobs.
KIT: What’s so special?
ANGIE: I think I’m my aunt’s child. I think my mother’s really my aunt.
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Act Two, Scene Two
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JOYCE: [Kit’s] a little girl Angie sometimes plays with because she’s the only child lives really close. She’s like a little sister to her really. Angie’s good with little children.
MARLENE: Do you want to work with children, Angie? Be a teacher or nursery nurse?
JOYCE: I don’t think she’s ever thought of it.
MARLENE: What do you want to do?
JOYCE: She hasn’t got an idea in her head what she wants to do. Lucky to get anything.
JOYCE: True enough.
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Kit Quotes in Top Girls
The Top Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Kit or refer to Kit. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Act One, Scene Three
Quotes
ANGIE: I’m going to London. To see my aunt.
KIT: And what?
ANGIE: That’s it.
KIT: I see my aunt all the time.
ANGIE: I don’t see my aunt.
KIT: What’s so special?
ANGIE: It is special. She’s special.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: She is.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: She is.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: My mother hates her.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: Because she does.
KIT: Perhaps she’s not very nice.
ANGIE: She is nice.
KIT: How do you know?
ANGIE: Because I know her.
KIT: You said you never see her.
ANGIE: I saw her last year. You saw her.
KIT: Did I?
ANGIE: Never mind.
KIT: I remember her. That aunt. What’s so special?
ANGIE: She gets people jobs.
KIT: What’s so special?
ANGIE: I think I’m my aunt’s child. I think my mother’s really my aunt.
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Act Two, Scene Two
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JOYCE: [Kit’s] a little girl Angie sometimes plays with because she’s the only child lives really close. She’s like a little sister to her really. Angie’s good with little children.
MARLENE: Do you want to work with children, Angie? Be a teacher or nursery nurse?
JOYCE: I don’t think she’s ever thought of it.
MARLENE: What do you want to do?
JOYCE: She hasn’t got an idea in her head what she wants to do. Lucky to get anything.
JOYCE: True enough.
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