- Miss Wiggins: The trouble with you young people is you don't believe in anything. You're afraid, afraid of hope, afraid of happiness.
- Miss Wiggins: Do you like cats?
- Constance Harding: No, not much.
- Miss Wiggins: Huh! You'll get to love them. They've got sense. They're like men. Feed them, pet them, and admire them, and they'll purr. Every woman wants to make somebody purr. You want to lock yourself up in a world of women.