- Doris Mann: You feel sorry half the time for having a monster of a mother like me. Everything about you says "look what you've done to me".
- Suzanne Vale: I never said you were a monster!
- Doris Mann: You don't say it, but you feel it. Somehow, you lay the entire blame for your drug-taking on me.
Shirley MacLaine - Doris Mann
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“Are you blameshifting?!”
Julia Roberts - Samantha Barzel

“If we forgive our fathers, what is left?”
Evan Adams - Thomas Builds-the-Fire

“- Faith Corvatch: Why couldn't we just have arranged marriages in America?
- Kate: Yeah, at least you could spend the rest of your life blaming your parents instead of yourself.”
Marisa Tomei - Faith Corvatch
Bonnie Hunt - Kate

“- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: You're a Sikh, Catholic Muslim with Jewish in-laws?
- Indian Bartender: Yes. Yes. It gets very complicated. I'm reading Dianetics.
- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Don't blame you.”
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn
Brian George - Indian Bartender