The Other Sister (1999)

Diane Keaton: Elizabeth

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• Carla Tate : [quoting one of her teachers]  Yeah, and she also told me that people like us, they - boys can try to take advantage and that they'll try to coitus us. So if that should ever happen, to say, "No!"

  Elizabeth : Oh. Okay.

  Carla Tate : "Stop right there!"

  Elizabeth : Good. That's excellent advice. What else did she say to you?

  Carla Tate : "Don't put gum under the cafeteria table! How many times do I have to tell you?"

• Shoe Salesman : [whispering to Carla about Elizabeth]  She's a little uptight.

  Elizabeth : What?

  Shoe Salesman : It-it's tight. This shoe's a little tight.

• Heather : Mother, being gay is not a diagnosis. It's not a disease I'm going to recover from, or a phase I'm going to outgrow.

  Elizabeth : I know what being gay is, okay? I give to gay causes. I support gay parades. They even gave me a plaque.

  Heather : Yes! So why support them and not me?

• Elizabeth : I feel like I'm the mother of a dedicated underachiever, a gay workaholic, and Carla, who thinks she can conquer this whole terrifying world that we live in.

  Dr. Radley Tate : Honey, you're doing fine. They're not drug addicts. They're not axe murderers. They're not *Democrats.*

• Elizabeth : I also enrolled her in a calligraphy class, an origami class. I even got her into that...

  Dr. Johnson : She doesn't want to do those things. They don't interest her. They don't work for her.

  Elizabeth : Maybe Carla doesn't know what works for her.

  Dr. Johnson : And you do.

  Elizabeth : I think so. I'm her mother.

  Dr. Johnson : That's why she tried to hitchhike over 200 miles to get back here?

• Elizabeth : [getting emotional]  I didn't want to put her in that place! But I had to. I had no other choice. She needed professional help. Now it is Carla turn, and I am going to protect her! And nobody's going to tell me how to do it, not even you, Radley. No!