Gil Kessler: Ladies and gentlemen. If I could have your attention, I have a few words I'd like to say. First off, I want to thank all of you. This has been a great campaign. Tomorrow at this time, I could actually be your councilman. But I don't want to be your city councilman unless I can win this job honestly, and there is something that I have not been honest about. Blanche Devereaux and I never had an affair. I only said that to improve my image.
Blanche: [to Dorothy & Rose] Ha, ha, ha.
Gil Kessler: Blanche is too good a person to be used that way. In fact, she made me realize how important honesty is. That's why I'm going to be honest about something else. I'm not who you think I am. In 1968, I had an operation. Until that time, I lived life as part-time stenographer and mild-mannered housewife, Anna-Maria Bonnaduci.
Blanche: What?
Rose: I can't believe it.
Sophia: What do you say about my hunches now, Dorothy? Five more minutes, I would have had it.
Dorothy: Ma, how could you know? No one knew.
Sophia: Please, look at his nose, of course he's Italian.