- Sandra Kovac: I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf--I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite--and I like food!
- Dr. Ferguson: So you never had a child of your own, huh?
- Maggie Patterson Van Allen: No.
- Dr. Ferguson: Mm. A pity. Just the sort of woman that should have them. Oh, well, You'll have plenty of time.
- Maggie Patterson Van Allen: I suppose so.
- Dr. Ferguson: It spells life with capital letters. A woman without a child is like a man without an arm. The right arm.
- Maggie Patterson Van Allen: Violet! Lunch! Ham, cakes, honey, and coffee!
- Violet: Jefferson!
- [He enters]
- Violet: Go out back and get that honey-glazed, peanut-fed, sweet Virginia ham.
- Jefferson: You ain't gonna feed that man, is you?
- Violet: Jefferson, I'd feed the devil hisself if he done polished up the smile on Miss Maggie's face like that!
- Aunt Ada Greenfield: Then I must telephone to Maggie at once, but I don't know where to get her. Last I heard was a postcard months ago from, I think, the Grand Canyon. Something about Old Faithful.