- Tamara: Don't worry. She won't divorce you. If she does, you can always go to the other one. She throws you out too -- you can come to me.
- Tamara: The truth is, I have no claim on him. He probably always loved you. I'm, I'm sure he slept with you before me.
- Yadwiga: Oh, no! I was an innocent girl! I came to him a virgin.
- Tamara: Oh, congratulations. Men love virgins. If every man had his way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.
- Masha: Herman! This is the last time I'm going to talk to you, and I'm going to tell you you're the worst fraud I've known in my life! If you hear that I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.
- Herman: Will you two stop quarreling? If you two can't live together peacefully, how can there ever be peace on the Earth? The last two people on Earth, they would kill each other.
- Yadwiga: I do shopping. I iron your shirt and underwear. I clean kitchen floor and bathroom. I had my breakfast, but I'm ready to eat again with you.
- Yadwiga: I fill your bathtub now. I buy you a soap. Perfume soap. Smell. Three for a dime. Come. I wash you.
- Masha's Mother: It's her fault, you know. It's all her fault. She wouldn't let me die. I thought she was dead too. And then one day, she finds me. The next day, she's already talking back to me.
- Masha's Mother: You listen to how she's carrying on? She always has to say something contrary. She's just like her father. May he rest in peace in the Garden of Eden.
- Masha's Mother: You know, my daughter, she can read the most difficult books. When it comes to people, she doesn't know her hands from her feet.
- Masha: What sense is there in doing the dirty work for that swindler of a rabbi? At least become a rabbi. Swindle in your own name.
- Tamara: No, I'm not the same. I'm dead. They put nylon stockings on me, they dyed my hair, they polished my fingernails. God help me. But I'm dead. So I bear no grudges against anyone. Nor am I dependent on anyone.
- Masha: You have your shiksa and you have me, but some bitch from Europe shows up and you leave to run off to meet her. A whore like that probably has syphilis too.
- Tamara: If a woman loves a man, she wants to have his child. She wants to be his wife too. And not have him run off with another woman.
- Tamara: Were you always like this? Or did the war do it? I can't remember what kind of person you used to be.
- Masha: Where are the Nazis? What kind of world is this without Nazis? A backward country, this America.
- [singing along with Billie Holiday on the radio]
- Masha: It's very clear, Our love is here to stay, Not for a year, Forever and a day, And the radio, And the telephone, And the movies that we know, May just be passing fancies...
- Yadwiga: I bake special New Year challah. I make carp's head like I'm supposed to. Then he calls and says he cannot be there. He must sell - Encyclopedia Britannica. What is Encyclopedia Britannica? And now he says he must go to Indiana. What is Indiana?
- Mrs. Schreier: What is Indiana? "What is alimony," is what you should be asking.
- Tamara: You won't believe me, but, sometimes our little David and Sarah come to me at night. They talk till morning. But when I wake up, I don't remember anything.
- Leon Tortshiner: I have every reason to be your enemy, Broder. But I tell you right off I'm here for your sake. Have some cheesecake.
- Leon Tortshiner: Did you know your Masha was the lover of a Red Army deserter? Who smuggled gold from Bessarabia? I won't deny it. I am still in love with her. She drives men crazy. Anyway, things went bad for us, and we had been apart for almost two years. When she calls and says she wants to see me. So she comes over all dressed up. Fit to kill, as they say. I had already heard all about you. But she - she told me the whole story, as if it happened only yesterday. How she had fallen in love, she had gotten pregnant, she wants a divorce, blah, blah, blah. She sat down in front of me and crossed her legs - like an actress posing for a photograph. Huh? I said to her, ''You behaved like a prostitute when you were with me, now pay the price.'' She hardly protested. ''We are still man and wife,'' she said. Huh, I guess it's permitted. To this day, I don't know why I did it. Vanity, perhaps. Anyway, I met Rabbi Lembeck, he told me all about you and I realized she had caught you in her net as she had me. Perhaps she's attracted to intellectuals.
- Yadwiga: You dog! You liar! There is no jungle in Baltimore! You hear it? There is no jungle in the stupid Baltimore!
- Leon Tortshiner: Every female sits in her own net, like a spider waiting for a fly. If you don't run away, they'll suck the last drop of life out of you.
- Tamara: You have a good heart, but I can't accept such a sacrifice. A slit throat cannot be sewn together again.
- Herman: Look, since Yadwiga knows, we can all be friends. Ja? No, it's good. This way I'll have fewer lies to tell.
- Pesheles: You're not like a greenhorn at all. You look like an American. And gorgeous! You know what? Let's all go down to your place. I'll send out for some bagels and lox and maybe even some cognac. And then we'll all have a nice chat.
- Pesheles: I went to visit Mr. Broder there. I thought the woman who converted was his wife. Turns out, he has a pretty little one right here. You refugees certainly know how to live. We Americans are only allowed one at a time.
- Rabbi Lembeck: Masha, you're the most beautiful woman at the party. And my friend Herman here, hid her.
- Pesheles: He's hiding more than one.
- Rabbi Lembeck: You think so? With me, he always played the innocent lamb. I was beginning to believe he was a eunuch.
- Pesheles: I wish I was such a eunuch.
- Tamara: You want three women, but you always go to the one who calls you the loudest... and who is sickest! She's not your lover, she's your enemy!
- Herman: Oh, Masha. Oh, Masha, Masha. You know, Tamara's right. I'm a lost man. I can't decide. I can't decide between women. I can't decide on anything. I - Masha. Masha.