- Adelaide Churchill: Lizzie what's wrong?
- Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Borden: Oh Mrs Churchill, do come in. Someone has killed Father.
- Maggie the maid: Mean old skinflint!
- Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Borden: Watch your tongue!
- Maggie the maid: I've heard you say it plenty of times.
- Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Borden: But it's not your place.
- Mr. Andrew Borden: You're a strange girl, Lizzie, one minute as hard and as cold as a grave so, next as loving as any father could wish. Wonder what goes on in that mind of yours, I guess I'll never know.
- Mrs. Abby Borden: I'll not be cast out into the street to starve!
- Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Borden: She could live off her fat for years.
- Hosea Knowlton: That woman actually believes she can get off scot-free by hiding behind her skirts.
- Sylvia Knowlton: What else has she?
- [he looks at her]
- Sylvia Knowlton: I'm sorry, Hosea. It just seems that you men have only yourselves to blame if women hide behind their femininity as a last defense. After all, you cast us in this role.
- Hosea Knowlton: You look upon your womanhood as a role my dear?
- Sylvia Knowlton: It's not always a convenient part to play.
- Hosea Knowlton: I've never heard you talk like this. Next you'll be asking for the vote. I gather you sympathize with this murderess.
- Sylvia Knowlton: She has not as yet been found guilty, Hosea.
- Hosea Knowlton: But you do sympathize with her?
- Sylvia Knowlton: Certainly not with her deeds, but perhaps with her motives.
- Hosea Knowlton: [laughs] Her motives? Now what would you know about her motives?
- Sylvia Knowlton: I should think a great deal, Hosea. You have no idea how unbearably heavy these skirts can be at times.
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