“- Dixie Leonard: You got three daughters. Why don't you give them the benefit of your wisdom?
- Eddie Sparks: Because my wisdom is for a son.”
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard
James Caan - Eddie Sparks

“Yes, we have girls. We're not so cold-blooded enough to put Ed's sperm in a centrifuge and spin 'em around to separate the X's from the Y's.”
Colleen Camp - Patti

“- Sir Thomas Boleyn: Would a smile be too much to ask?
- Lady Elizabeth: What's there to smile about? I'm a mother of a child ordered to marry a girl he hates, another banished aboard in disgrace, and a third whoring in public with an adulteer.”
Mark Rylance - Sir Thomas Boleyn
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Lady Elizabeth Boleyn

“- Ted Foster: I thought that if you wanted to marry a girl you were supposed to ask her father.
- Harry C. Thomas: You must be talking about some other father, some other family. Not a family with only one father and three daughters. Nobody asks him anything. He's lucky if he gets told.”
John Shelton - Ted Foster
Frank Morgan - Harry C. Thomas

“Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.”
Teresa Wright - Charlie Newton