Iris

Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed.

– Derek Challis on his mother Iris Wilkinson, in his book The Book of Life: A Life of Robin Hyde

Morse says that Wilkinson's need to have children in spite of being unmarried would have been not only accepted but accommodated today in a way unheard of in the 30s.

– Actor Helen Morse on social changes explored in telefilm Iris, The Listener, 24 December 1983

Look lady, whatever you think, I want this to work too. Not for you, not for [the director] Mike's obsession, but for her. So until you try sitting down behind that bloody typewriter — just you and the ghost of a dead woman — don't you give any more of that shit about playing games.

– Scriptwriter Kelly (Philip Holden) to Sammie (Helen Morse), the actor playing Iris

...an astonishing book. I think the life-force, the love of life in it and the will — God there's so many things — someone talking about their childhood, about society, love and repression; struggle ... but through a poet's vision.

– Actor Helen Morse on Iris Wilkinson's 1938 novel The Godwits Fly, in The Listener, 24 December 1983