Threads (1984 TV Movie)

Karen Meagher: Ruth Beckett

Quotes 

• Mrs. Beckett : Ruth... Ruth, love... come on love, you'll have to eat something. But you'll have to, love, it's not just you now, you know, the baby needs some food as well.

  Ruth Beckett : [crying]  I can't care about this baby anymore, I wish it was dead.

  Mrs. Beckett : Oh Ruth! Don't say things like that.

  Ruth Beckett : There's no point! There's no point with Jimmy dead.

  Mrs. Beckett : But you don't know he's dead, love...

  Ruth Beckett : He is! He is! I KNOW he is!

  Mrs. Beckett : You can't be certain.

  Ruth Beckett : We're breathing in all this radiation all the time - my baby!

  [sobs] 

  Ruth Beckett : It'll be ugly and deformed.

• Ruth Beckett : [after telling her worried boyfriend that she's pregnant]  It's not the end of the world, is it?