- Miranda Ruth: It is not a handicap to have one thing, but not another. To be one way, and not another. We are different shapes and ways, and our happiness is unique. There are no rules of balance.
- Cyd Loughlin: I wanted to ask you what your greatest pleasure in life is. Like... Joy.
- Miranda Ruth: Cake.
- Miranda Ruth: I wish that I could share with you the utter joy it brings me to spend three hours on a Saturday afternoon reading Emerson, or Melville, or Virginia Woolf... or discussing T.S. Eliot or James Baldwin with a dear friend until dawn... the fulfillment that I get from going to church, from reading theology, from reading science, from... praying. But I can't. Because I am me, and you are you, I can't relate to the total fulfillment that I get from these things. It's impossible.
- Cyd Loughlin: Can I tell you a secret?
- Miranda Ruth: Yes, you may.
- Cyd Loughlin: I kinda wanna have sex with Katie...
- [short pause]
- Cyd Loughlin: What? Is that weird?
- Miranda Ruth: Not at all.
- Miranda Ruth: Oh, I might have half a piece more of Anna May's cake... Are you sure you don't want some cake?
- Cyd Loughlin: No, thanks... You know, maybe if you had sex once in a while, you wouldn't wanna eat all the time.
- Miranda Ruth: You're finding your own joy. You're engaging your own stuff, and that's great. That's how it should be. It's a beautiful thing.
- Cyd Loughlin: So, you liked it, and you didn't?
- Kip Sellers: What? Being married to men?
- Bettie Martin: Are you asking if we like dick?