“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
Blair: What I want is to be a powerful woman.
But, whenever Chuck’s around, I just feel like a weak little girl.
Eleanor: I shut myself off for a long time after your father left. I was cold and hard. Then I met Cyrus, and he taught me that sometimes you have to allow yourself to be weak in order to grow stronger.
Blair: Well, that sounds good, but it feels terrible.
Eleanor: You don’t have to lose the girl to be a woman. Just… need to think maybe about how many people are going to be around the next time you let her out. [Blair laughs] I’m going to bed. Goodnight.
Gossip Girl 4x07 War at the Roses
