Good Times (TV Series)

The Evans Get Involved: Part 3 (1977)

Chip Fields: Linella Gordon

Quotes 

• Mrs. Gordon : [to Willona about Penny]  You think it's easy raising that kid without a father?

  Willona Woods : Big deal. I was raised without a father, but my mother never went up side my head.

  Mrs. Gordon : Well, you were lucky, baby, because my family went up side, down side and across mine. I've been scuffling all my life!

  Willona Woods : Honey, you don't own the rights or the patents on scuffling!

• Willona Woods : I've been on my own since I was 16.

  Mrs. Gordon : Oh, really? Well you're lucky, sister, because when you were 16 you didn't have to worry about anybody but yourself, me when I was 16, I was pregnant. And I didn't have a dime and a man who left me before Penny was born.

  Willona Woods : That happens every day in the week. You could've done something.

  Mrs. Gordon : Done something? Sister, I did do something, I carried that child and made a career for myself. And I wanted to do those things, but then when that baby's born, what's she do for me? Nothing! Nothing! I can't even keep a man on account of Penny! If it weren't for her all the time needing things and wanting things, I might be allowed some happiness. Now she's gone off and caused even more trouble!

  [crying] 

  Mrs. Gordon : Haven't I had enough?

• Mrs. Gordon : I am thinking... I'm thinking maybe this time I'll be the one who runs away for a change. There's a life out there somewhere and I'm going to have a hunk of it.

  Willona Woods : Don't do this to Penny. You can't leave her.

  Mrs. Gordon : She deserves something better than me.