Sally Alexander: Of course I didn't want to be you. Nobody should have to be you, that's the point.
Jo Robinson: Are you all right?
Sally Alexander: Yes, I'm fine.
Jo Robinson: Well there's obviously something wrong. Why don't you just say.
Sally Alexander: It turns out my seat at the table is actually a high chair.
Jo Robinson: What? And you're surprised?
Evelyn Alexander: All this whining and complaining about the patriarchy. Other girls are perfectly happy as they are.
Sally Alexander: Well I'm not a girl, I'm a woman.
Dolores Hope: Those crazy women, huh?
Evelyn Alexander: And what would have happened to you and your sisters if I had thought like you, if I had done what you're doing? Neglected my poky little domestic world, neglected my marriage, neglected my children? You think you can have the same freedoms as a man, but you can't. You can't.
Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada: There will be little girls watching tonight who will see themselves differently because I won. Who might just start to believe that you don't have to be white to have a place in the world.
Jo Robinson: I look like the kind of woman I never, ever want to be.
Bearded Marxist Professor: Your subject needs to have a genuine relevance. Best to steer clear of more minority interests.




