Parenting & Family Quote by Susannah York

York’s anger isn’t the glamorous kind that reads as temperament; it’s the kind that redraws the moral map in real time. She names “injustice and bullying” first, then immediately stages them as street-level scenes: a woman, a child, a dog. The specificity is the point. This isn’t abstract outrage or cocktail-party politics; it’s visceral, public, and bodily. “If I see” makes her ethics observational, triggered by witnessing rather than ideology, and “in the street” positions cruelty as something society permits in plain sight when it’s convenient to look away.

There’s also a quiet actor’s intelligence in how she frames power. Bullying is not merely violence; it’s violence with an audience and an imbalance. By listing targets who are culturally coded as defenseless, York clarifies her hierarchy of anger: not every conflict is equal, not every harm is negotiable. The inclusion of “kicking a dog” is telling in a British context where animal cruelty carries a particular social stigma; it’s a shorthand for casual sadism, the kind that doesn’t even pretend to have a reason.

“I go completely mad” is both confession and warning. It stakes out anger as a form of refusal, a line she won’t civilize for politeness. Coming from an actress often expected to be agreeable, this is a small rebellion: a claim that decency is not softness. It’s ferocity on behalf of whoever can’t safely be ferocious themselves.