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- M'Lynn: [crying] I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
- [screaming]
- M'Lynn: I'm fine! I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I am so mad I don't know what to do! I wanna know why! I wanna know *why* Shelby's life is over! I wanna know how that baby will *ever* know how wonderful his mother was! Will he *ever* know what she went through for him! Oh *God* I wanna know *why*? *Why*? Lord, I wish I could understand!
- [in a firm tone]
- M'Lynn: No! No! No! It's not supposed to happen this way! I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I just wanna *hit* somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard!
- [continues sobbing]
- Clairee: Here!
- [grabs Ouiser by the shoulder and positions her in front of M'Lynn]
- Clairee: Hit this! Go ahead M'Lynn, slap her!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: [taken aback and confused] Are you crazy?
- Clairee: Hit her!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Are you *high*, Clairee?
- Truvy: [in a frightened tone] Clairee, have you lost your mind?
- Clairee: We'll sell t-shirts sayin' "I SLAPPED OUISER BOUDREAUX!" Hit her!
- Annelle: [in a scared tone] Ms. Clairee, enough!
- Clairee: Ouiser, this is your chance to do something for your fellow man! Knock her lights out, M'Lynn!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: [snatches away] Let go o' me!
- Clairee: M'Lynn, you just missed the chance of a lifetime! Half o' Chiquapin Parish'd give their eye teeth to take a whack at Ouiser!
- Clairee: Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?
- Clairee Belcher: Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
- Clairee Belcher: Ouiser, I'd recognize this penmanship anywhere. You have the handwritin' of a serial killer.
- M'Lynn: [crying] I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
- [screaming]
- M'Lynn: I'm fine! I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I am so mad I don't know what to do! I wanna know why! I wanna know *why* Shelby's life is over! I wanna know how that baby will *ever* know how wonderful his mother was! Will he *ever* know what she went through for him! Oh *God* I wanna know *why*? *Why*? Lord, I wish I could understand!
- [in a firm tone]
- M'Lynn: No! No! No! It's not supposed to happen this way! I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I just wanna *hit* somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard!
- [continues sobbing]
- Clairee: Here!
- [grabs Ouiser by the shoulder and positions her in front of M'Lynn]
- Clairee: Hit this! Go ahead M'Lynn, slap her!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: [taken aback and confused] Are you crazy?
- Clairee: Hit her!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Are you *high*, Clairee?
- Truvy: [in a frightened tone] Clairee, have you lost your mind?
- Clairee: We'll sell t-shirts sayin' "I SLAPPED OUISER BOUDREAUX!" Hit her!
- Annelle: [in a scared tone] Ms. Clairee, enough!
- Clairee: Ouiser, this is your chance to do something for your fellow man! Knock her lights out, M'Lynn!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: [snatches away] Let go o' me!
- Clairee: M'Lynn, you just missed the chance of a lifetime! Half o' Chiquapin Parish'd give their eye teeth to take a whack at Ouiser!
- M'Lynn: I find it amusing. Men are supposed to be made out of steel or something. I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Yes, Annelle, I pray! Well, I do! There, I said it, I hope you're satisfied.
- Annelle: I suspected this all along!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Oh! Well don't you expect me to come to one of your churches or one of those tent-revivals with all those Bible-beaters doin' God-only-knows-what! They'd probably make me eat a live chicken!
- Annelle: Not on your first visit!
- Clairee Belcher: Very good, Annelle! Spoken like a true smart-ass!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: I am just about at the end of my rope with you.
- Drum: Well, then why don't you tie a noose and slip it 'round your head?
- [Referring to her daughter's many pink wedding decorations]
- M'Lynn: That sanctuary looks like it's been hosed down with Pepto-Bismol.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: You are evil, and you must be destroyed.
- Clairee Belcher: Mother Nature's taking care of that faster than you could.
- Truvy: Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.
- Truvy: You are playin' hard to get!
- Clairee Belcher: At her age, she should be playin' beat the clock.
- Drum: Ouiser you look like hammered shit.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Don't you talk to me like that!
- Drum: Oh, I'm sorry. You look like regular shit.
- Clairee Belcher: You know, you would be a much more contented, pleasant person if you would find ways to occupy your time.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: I'm pleasant. Damn it! I saw Drum Eatenton this morning at the Piggly Wiggly, and I smiled at the son of a bitch 'fore I couldn't help myself.
- Annelle: We are in the house of the Lord!
- Clairee Belcher: Oh like she cares. Ousier's never done a religious thing in her life.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Now that is not true. When I was in school, a bunch of my friends and I would dress up as nuns and go bar-hoppin'.
- Clairee: [after Shelby said she almost called off the wedding] Shelby, you scared us. That wasn't a nice thing to do to your mama. Never say that to a woman who's marinating 50 pounds of crab claws.
- Shelby: I am going to be very, very careful, nobody is going to be hurt or disappointed or even inconvenienced.
- M'Lynn: Least of all Jackson, I'm sure.
- Shelby: You're jealous, because you no longer have a say so in what I do and that drives you up the wall. You're ready to spit nails because you can't call the shots.
- M'Lynn: I did not raise my daughter to talk to me like this.
- Shelby: Yes, you did.
- M'Lynn: Oh no, I didn't.
- Shelby: Whenever any of us asked you what you wanted for us when we grew up what did you say?
- M'Lynn: Shelby, I'm not in the mood to play games.
- Shelby: Just tell me what you said, Mama, what did you say?
- M'Lynn: The only thing I have ever said to you, ever, is that I want you to be happy.
- Shelby: Okay, the one thing that would make me happy is to have a baby. If I could adopt one I would, but I can't. I'm going to have a baby, and I wish you'd be happy too.
- M'Lynn: I'll tell you what I wish. Well, I don't know what I wish.
- Shelby: Mama, I don't know why you have to make everything so difficult. I look at having a baby as the opportunity of a lifetime. Sure there may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody. But you get through it and life goes on. And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope. Please, please I need your support. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.
- Truvy: Oh sweetheart don't. Please don't cry or I will too. I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.
- Clairee Belcher: The older you get, the sillier you get.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Yeah, well the older you get, the uglier you get.
- Annelle: Sammy Wayne Desoto, what is this in my Frigidaire?
- Sammy: Beer.
- Annelle: I don't care what you do with your refrigerator, but you will not keep liquor in mine.
- [dumps the beer out in the yard]
- Sammy: Oh, Annelle, for Christ's sake!
- Annelle: Who? Who did you say?
- Sammy: Christ, Christ, Christ!
- Annelle: Are you speaking of our Lord? Is that whose name you're taking in vain?
- Sammy: That's the one.
- Annelle: Well, I'm sorry, Sammy. But I am not about to spend the next fifty years of my life with someone I'm not gonna run into in the hereafter.
- Sammy: Oh, Annelle, goddammit!
- Annelle: I think we should pray.
- Sammy: Oh, I'd rather eat dirt!
- Annelle: Miss Truvy, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free. And I don't see movies 'cause they're trash, and they got nothin' but naked people in 'em! And I don't read books, 'cause if they're any good, they're gonna make 'em into a miniseries.
- [Sammy is wearing an Easter bunny contume]
- Annelle: We'll talk about uncomfortable when you're nine months pregnant!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: I should have never said that in front of Shelby.
- Clairee: Ouiser no one pays any attention to you.
- M'Lynn: Oh Ouiser, Drum would NEVER point a gun at a lady!
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Oh! He's a real gentleman! I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he PEES in it!
- M'Lynn: We have this new psychiatrist that comes in two days a week and of course I pick her name out of the grab bag, I have to pick something up for her tomorrow. Would you put that on the list, I have no idea what to get your father. What's Jackson giving you, do you know?
- Shelby: Furniture.
- M'Lynn: Furniture, well, my. Must be nice to be married to a rich lawyer. What's it for, the living room?
- Shelby: No, for the nursery.
- [seeing M'Lynn's stricken look]
- Shelby: We wanted to tell you when you and daddy were together, but you're never together so it's every man for himself. I'm pregnant.
- M'Lynn: I realize that.
- Shelby: Well is that it? Is that all you're gonna say?
- M'Lynn: What do you want me to say?
- Shelby: Well, something along the lines of congratulations.
- M'Lynn: Congratulations.
- Shelby: Would it be too much to ask for a little excitement, not too much I wouldn't want you to break a sweat or anything. It's in July. Oh Mama, you have to help me plan. We're gonna get a new house. Jackson and I are going house hunting next week. Jackson loves to hunt for anything.
- M'Lynn: What does Jackson say about all of this?
- Shelby: He's so excited. He says he doesn't care whether it's a boy or a girl, but I know he really wants a son so bad he can taste it. He's really cute about the whole thing. It's all he can talk about: Jackson Latree, Jr.
- M'Lynn: Does he ever? Listen, I mean when doctors and specialists give you advice. Does he listen? I know you never do, does he? Huh? What? Well, I guess since he doesn't have to carry the baby it really isn't any of his concern.
- Shelby: Mama, I want a child.
- M'Lynn: What about adoption? You've filled out all the applications.
- Shelby: Mama, no judge is gonna give a baby to someone with my medical records. Jackson even put out feelers about buying one.
- M'Lynn: People do it all the time.
- Shelby: Listen to me. I want a child of my own. I think it would help things a lot.
- M'Lynn: I see.
- Shelby: Mama, you worry too much. In fact I never worry 'cause I always know you're worried enough for the both of us. Jackson and I have given this a lot of thought.
- M'Lynn: Has he really? Well, there's a first time for everything.
- Shelby: Don't start on Jackson.
- M'Lynn: Your poor body has been through so much. Why would you deliberately do this to yourself?
- Shelby: Diabetics have healthy babies all the time.
- M'Lynn: You are special Shelby. There are limits to what you can do.
- Drum: [to Ouiser] I heard you got so screwed up you cut your dog out of your will and had an ungrateful nephew to sleep!
- Clairee Belcher: [quoting her gay nephew] All gay men have track lightin'. And all gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve.
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