“- Tess, the mother: I think you have these qualities that you demand and when you meet a nice man you disqualify him for the smallest fault.
- Bea: That's not true.
- Tess, the mother: So, what was wrong with Nat Bernstein?
- Bea: He wore white socks with a tuxedo!”
Julie Kavner - Tess, the mother
Dianne Wiest - Bea

“My dear, when you're as old as I am, you take your men as you find them - if you can find them.”

Helen Broderick - Madge Hardwick

“Men see things in a box and women see them in a round room.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“You know something? You ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat women like whores and, if you ask me, you got no chance of being no officer!”
Debra Winger - Paula Pokrifki

“- Margaret Wade: If you didn't have women, you wouldn't have babies, which means you wouldn't have people.
- Joey: And if you didn't have men, who'd drive the ladies to the hospital?”
Amy Sakasitz - Margaret Wade
Kellen Hathaway - Joey