The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket? (1988)

Herta Ware: Ida

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• Ida : I didn't know, nobody told me that it cost money to get old. I just figured that was one thing you got for free.

  [Dorothy smiles] 

  Ida : But it isn't,

  [Dorothy looks somber] 

  Ida : The retirement home costs money, the doctors cost money, medicine costs money. I always thought it was so sad I'd outlived my whole family; but I didn't know that it was going to be a punishment.

• Ida : I wonder now, I don't decide things anymore. I wait for things to happen.

• Ida : [to Dorothy and Sophia about how she left the rest home]  Then I received a letter, the money had run out. I asked for help. They gave me some... phone numbers.