Change of Habit (1969)

Jane Elliot: Sister Barbara

Quotes 

• Sister Michelle : You're the doctor?

  Sister Barbara : You don't look like a doctor.

  Dr. John Carpenter : Well, man doesn't live by bread alone, especially the kind of bread you make in a free clinic. John Carpenter, M.D.

• Sister Barbara : Ah, Sisters, why don't you go on to the Clinic without me. Please tell Dr. Carpenter I'll be there as soon as I can. I have a rendezvous with destiny at the Ajax Market.

  Sister Michelle : Sister Barbara!

  Sister Barbara : I know, order and discipline, Well, I'm being wilfully disobedient.

  Sister Irene : That is called doing your own thing.

• Father Gibbons : I don't like underground nuns who wear bobbed hair and silk stockings.

  Sister Barbara : Oh, but they're nylon, Father.

• Sister Barbara : Thank you very much, sir.

  Lily : A girl with a shape like yours can do better than two-bit winos.

• Sister Barbara : If you don't like my noodle ring, you should have accepted Dr. Carpenter's invitation to dinner. I would have.

  Sister Michelle : That'll be five 'Hail Marys'.

  Sister Irene : Nuns and men don't mix.

  Sister Barbara : Oh, I think he's cute.

  Sister Irene : Fifteen.

  Sister Barbara : Honest. He's groovy.

  Sister Irene , Sister Michelle : Twenty-five.

• Sister Barbara : Tell me, as a doctor would you diagnose what's happening today, the riots, the student unrest, as not really the death throes of an old order but the birth pains of a new one?

  Dr. John Carpenter : I didn't know I was making a house call.

  Sister Barbara : Oh, well, I mean, don't we all, each in our own way, have to man the barricades?

  Dr. John Carpenter : At the Ajax Market?

• Sister Barbara : Well, me for the sack.

  Sister Michelle : And me for the sack cloth and the ashes.

  Sister Barbara : Church?

  Sister Michelle : I've got to talk to somebody.

  Sister Barbara : Oh, you're not going all the way uptown to the convent at this hour.

  Sister Michelle : No. We have a church right here in the neighborhood.

  Sister Barbara : Father Gibbons? He will burn you at the stake.

  Sister Michelle : Ah, not exactly an apostle of the Ecumenical Movement.

  Sister Barbara : Ah, no. More The Inquisition.

  Sister Michelle : But still a Priest.