- Ed Hoffman: I certainly hope your wife will be able to convince Congress.
- W.J. Archer: She will. You don't know my Nellie. She carries an umbrella, and she knows how to use it.
- Ginger Carroll: Pop, when you were my age, didn't you ever go out on dates?
- Howard Carroll: Did I go on dates? Ha! I had a girl for every day of the week.
- Ginger Carroll: You did?
- Howard Carroll: Yeah. Of course it was the same one--your mother.
- Howard Carroll: [kissing on the couch] I haven't been this excited since you and I were 18.
- Agnes Carroll: I didn't know you when you were 18.
- Howard Carroll: You did too; I was 27.
- Ginger Carroll: Is there a difference between boys and girls?
- Howard Carroll: [long pause] Well, there are the birds... and the bees...
- Ginger Carroll: I know all about that slop; I'm talking about football!
- Ed Hoffman: I understand, Mr. Archer, that you want to negotiate a $250,000 loan. Just what is the nature of the project?
- W.J. Archer: It's in the vending machine field.
- Howard Carroll: Well, vending machines are a big business.
- Ed Hoffman: Oh, big business, yes, very big.
- W.J. Archer: Well, I'm interested in the beverage end of it. They have machines dispensing nearly every kind of beverage, but there's one they overlooked.
- Ed Hoffman: What's that?
- W.J. Archer: Cocktails.
- Agnes Carroll: How do you feel about Virginia running foot races?
- Tommy Green: I don't think she should do it.
- Ginger Carroll: You mean I shouldn't compete against Eddie?
- Tommy Green: Sure you should, but as a girl, not as a boy.
- Ginger Carroll: Well, then you don't think of me as an equal?
- Tommy Green: Sure I do, but I think of you as a girl first.
- Ginger Carroll: Well, I want to be an equal first!
- [storms away angry]
- Tommy Green: Go ahead! I don't want to talk about it any more!
- Howard Carroll: Well, Virginia seems to have discovered a new sex: boys, girls, and equals.