Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Audrey Christie: Mrs. Loomis

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• Wilma Dean : Didn't you ever feel that way about Dad?

  Mrs. Loomis : Your father never laid a hand on me until we were married. Then I... I just gave in because a wife has to. A woman doesn't enjoy those things the way a man does. She just lets her husband come near her in order to have children.

• Mrs. Loomis : Ginny Stamper is too low for the dogs to bite.

• Mrs. Loomis : Did those doctors at the hospital say your mother had raised you wrong or something? Did they blame your father and me in any way?

  Wilma Dean : I don't blame anyone, Mother.

  Mrs. Loomis : I raised you the only way I knew how. The only way I knew how. The way my mother raised me... and I suppose the way her mother raised her. If I brought you up wrong, Deanie, I don't think you should hate me. I know I used to hate my mother at times... but I always believed she was right about things. Maybe she wasn't... but I loved her.

  Wilma Dean : I love you, Mother.

  Mrs. Loomis : I hope so, Deanie. You know it would be nice if children could be born into this world with an absolute guarantee they'd have just the right kind of bringing up and all lead happy, normal lives, but... well, I guess when we get born we just all have to take our chances.

• Wilma Dean : Is it so terrible to have those feelings about a boy?

  Mrs. Loomis : No nice girl does.