“- Aurora Greenway: I just don't want to fight anymore.
- Emma Horton: What do you mean? When do we fight?
- Aurora Greenway: When do we fight? I always think of us as fighting!
- Emma Horton: That's because you're never satisfied with me.”
Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway
Debra Winger - Emma Horton

“The more you get hit, the harder you fight.”
Rachel McAdams - Maureen Hope

“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost... the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“- 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