The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Stand by Your Man (1990)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Sophia Petrillo : Please! Just because a man's in a wheelchair doesn't mean he can't satisfy a woman.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : What do you know about this, Ma?

  Sophia Petrillo : Picture it Sicily, 1914. A man in a wheelchair satisfies a woman. It's a short story, but I think it makes my point.

• Blanche Devereaux : [on a first date, Blanche brings along Sophia and introduces her as her Grandmother]  Having a chaperon is an old Southern tradition. Grammy here brought me up since I was a child. She's the one who taught me how to put up peach preserves, and make my own clothes.

  Sophia Petrillo : We was po'.

  Ted : Blanche, you didn't strike me as the type who needed a chaperon.

  Blanche Devereaux : Well, as I said, it was a tradition. We Southern families stick together.

  Sophia Petrillo : We sho' do.

  Ted : Well, I suppose it's been nice, having someone look after you since you were young.

  Sophia Petrillo : I had to. When she was fifteen, I caught her under a pile of hillbillies. Picture it: me with a crowbar, prying cousins off, left and right.