Veronica Townsend is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Paula Trickey. Highly driven and extremely judgemental, she is a highly successful sports agent and served as the chair of the parents' committee at The Harbor School, a prestigious private school where her daughter, Taylor Townsend, was a pupil. She is divorced from her husband, Taylor's father, who seems to be fairly multi-talented, as he is said to be both a wealthy auto dealer and a former sex therapist (although this may just be a continuity error within the series). Exceedingly wealthy thanks to her divorce and her lucrative career, Veronica's success seems to have come at the expense of her relationship with her daughter, of whom she is highly critical.
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“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
—Charles Edward Pogue, U.S. screenwriter, and David Cronenberg. Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis)
“There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”
—Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)