The Mating Season (1951)

Gene Tierney: Maggie Carleton

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• Maggie Carleton : I married a stranger!

  Val McNulty : Everybody marries a stranger.

• Maggie Carleton : When you've been brought up in a half a dozen embassies, the little princes and little dukes and little diplomats, bowing from the waist and kissing your hand, what do you think you dream about?

  Val McNulty : What?

  Maggie Carleton : You dream of meeting a man.

• Maggie Carleton : Every time I look at you, I'm glad I'm a woman.

  Val McNulty : That's two of us.

• Fran Carleton : When I married your father I was 99 and one ounce. I remember somebody at the wedding reception saying she's so tiny you have to shake the sheets to find her. It's the food in this house.

  Maggie Carleton : If you don't like it you're awfully polite about second helpings.

  Fran Carleton : That's the trouble. It's a constant temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is increasing.