Charlotte Rae: Edna Garrett

Quotes 

• Blair Warner : Meet my gorgeous mother.

  Nancy Olson : You're the most beautiful woman I ever met.

  Monica Warner : Oh, thank you, dear.

  [chuckles] 

  Sue Ann Weaver : What do you have to do to look the way you do?

  Monica Warner : Well, I get plenty of sleep, I exercise, and I drink plenty of milk.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Wow, if I could look like that, I'd drink a cow.

  Nancy Olson : Come on, guys, we gotta get back to work.

  Edna Garrett : On the double, on the double.

  Sue Ann Weaver : [still thinking Blair's mom]  Wow, what a figure.

  Cindy Webster : Yeah, wouldn't you just love to have a pair of legs like that.

  Natalie Green : I'd settle for just one.

• Edna Garrett : [trying to thread needle]  It's tough having a young heart with middle-aged eyes.

• Edna Garrett : Okay, so we both know your mother's slightly flirtatious.

  Blair Warner : That's like saying the Eiffel Tower's slightly tall.

• Blair Warner : My mother's made a date with her latest conquest, Justin Branch. He's a married man! I never want to hear 'like mother, like daughter' again.

  Edna Garrett : Oh, but Blair, your mother and Mr. Branch are old friends. They're having an innocent reunion.

  Blair Warner : I've lost three fathers because of 'innocent' little reunions like this. I wonder how many husbands I'll go through.

• Edna Garrett : Blair is very upset. Her mother's about to become involved with a man here.

  Steven Bradley : She is? Did she tell you where she wants me to meet her?

• Edna Garrett : You know, Blair, I had to learn that loving someone doesn't mean loving the parts you like. Loving means accepting the whole package, warts and all.

  Blair Warner : If my mother ever had a wart, she'd sue Elizabeth Arden.