- Suzanne Vale: You don't know my mother.
- Lowell Kolchek: I don't know your mother, but I'll tell you something. She did it to you and her mother did it to her and back and back and back all the way to eve and at some point you just say, "fuck it, I start with me".

Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale
Gene Hackman - Lowell Kolchek

“- Mother: Sybylla, I want to have a talk with you.
- Sybylla Melvyn: Talk away.
- Mother: You're a young woman now and - I have been thinking about this a great deal - we can't afford to keep you any longer.”
Julia Blake - Mother
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn

“My parents had basically given up on children when I came along, so my mother always called me her 'gift from God'. That really stuck with me and when I was eight I told her I had a feeling I was supposed to return the favor. She was so happy she cried. My dad just wanted to know if working for God came with dental.”
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn

“See that woman right there? That's my mother and when I grow up... I want to be just like yours.”
Betsy Townsend - Mary O'Brien

“For 18 years your mother is the most important person to you in your entire life. And then... and then... One day poof! You're gone. And then what are you supposed to do. Like, just adjust? Just like that?”
Goldie Hawn - Linda Middleton