“Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.”

“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

“Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!”

“Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.”

“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”

“Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!”

“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”