“- Sybylla Melvyn: I think uglygirls should be strangled at birth by their parents. It's bad enough being born a girl... but being born ugly and clever...
- Aunt Gussie: Clever, are you?
- Sybylla Melvyn: I hope so. I'm done for if I'm not! There has to be something I'm good at.”
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn
Patricia Kennedy - Aunt Gussie

“I had enough bad luck to keep me laughin' the rest of my life. Sat in that jail. I sat in that jail ’til I nearby done rot to death. I know what it’s like, Ms. Celie, to wanna go somewhere and can’t.”
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia

“You don't have the sense God gave a doughnut, do you?”
Scott Glenn - Jack Buggit

“- Psychiatrist: I'm sorry, I don't speak German.
- Depressed German: The nipples of mother fortune have run dry...”

Dave Foley - Psychiatrist

“Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it.”
Lady Chablis - Chablis Deveau