Dorothy Quote #117

Quote from Dorothy in That Was No Lady

Glen: I'm married.
Dorothy: What?
Glen: It's not a good marriage, Dorothy. It was over years ago.
Dorothy: I can't believe this. You lied to me.
Glen: No, I didn't lie. I'm telling you now.
Dorothy: I'm getting out of here.
Glen: No.
Dorothy: Let go of me.
Glen: No, you got to listen. Please, you have to listen!
Dorothy: Listen to what, listen to what? How your wife doesn't understand you? How you stayed because of the children?
Glen: I did stay for the children. My wife would have moved them back to her home. My kids would have been clear across the country. I couldn't bear to lose them, so I stayed.
Dorothy: Your children are over 30. You're still staying for them?
Glen: I couldn't leave her because of all the things Look, I don't want to hear about it.
Dorothy: Oh, my God, I'm storming out to the bathroom.
Glen: Will you look at what we have? We make each other happy.
Dorothy: You lied to me.
Glen: I couldn't lie to you, that's why I told you. Don't end this, Dorothy. You mean everything to me. It's over with my wife. It's just hard to walk out, is all.
Dorothy: Well, not for me it isn't. [exits]

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Quote from Sophia

Dorothy: I cannot believe how excited I am! I mean, he's practically a stranger, and I am crazy about him! I haven't felt this way about a man ever before.
Blanche: Oh, honey, you've been hit by the thunderbolt! Love at first sight! It happened to me once.
Sophia: Once? You've been hit by more lightning than the World Trade Center!
Rose: I was hit by the thunderbolt once.
Sophia: Probably a direct hit to the forehead.

Quote from Rose

Rose: It was the first time I saw my Charlie. I was seven and he was eight. It was a hot Minnesota summer and he had put up one of those little stands on the sidewalk.
Blanche: Selling lemonade.
Rose: Insurance. And I bought a nickel policy on my red wagon. And right after that, my wagon was destroyed.
Blanche: How?
Rose: Some hogs trampled it. I was hauling home a smoked ham for Mama and I think it set them off. Anyway, that's when I fell in love with Charlie. He paid for a new wagon, even though my policy didn't cover acts of swine.
Dorothy: ... "Acts of swine."

Quote from Sophia

Blanche: Girls, I am so excited! I am finally going to do something you've heard me talk about doing for years.
Sophia: You decided to install a trapeze over your bed.