The Impatient Years (1944)

Jean Arthur: Janie Anderson

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• William Smith : A girl your age shouldn't be such an old maid.

  Janie Anderson : Well, is organizing your day being an old maid? For heaven's sake you have to when you are doing housekeeping, all the books tell you.

  William Smith : Maybe that's your trouble, Janie. You learned to be a wife out of a book. Yes sir, you've become an automaton. Too much schedule for a girl your age. Especially now that Andy's here. Of course, when he was away it was alright. But, now its your duty to make yourself attractive to your husband.

  Janie Anderson : Attractive?

  William Smith : Yes, attractive.

• Janie Anderson : Oh, I'm terribly sorry that we couldn't meet you in San Francisco because, well, on account of the gasoline rationing and everything.

  Andy Anderson : On, no, the bus was swell.

• Counterman : Now, look, Bud, I'd imagine that after running into a wrong dame, like this one, you'd realize you got a pretty nice wife at home and you wouldn't want to get a divorce.

  Andy Anderson : She's my wife.

  Counterman : Who?

  Janie Anderson : Me, that's who!

• Janie Anderson : I was probably so cold my brain was numb.

  Andy Anderson : Well, you apparently never got thawed out, that's all I know.

  Janie Anderson : I don't think you could thaw anybody out anyway.