Women of the House (TV Series)

You Talk Too Much (1995)

Patricia Heaton: Natalie Hollingsworth

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Quotes 

• Dave : Representative Sugarbaker is in her office talking to the President.

  Natalie Hollingsworth : The President? Oh, why is she still talking to him? We don't have to talk to him anymore, we Republicans are in charge. That means we can stop kissing it and start kicking it!

• [Sissy says that she spit in Jesse Helms' soup] 

  Natalie Hollingsworth : You know that is truly one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard!

  Sissy Emerson : Get real, Natty, waiters do it all the time!

  Natalie Hollingsworth : Maybe to you.

  Sissy Emerson : Trust me, I know I've only known you for a few months, but I feel very safe in guessing that many of your waiters went home with cottonmouth!

• Natalie Hollingsworth : How is your diet going now?

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : It's going a little rough, actually, and I'm a little bit cranky, so let's just not talk about it, okay? In fact, if I don't get something big and greasy to eat by six o'clock, somebody around here is gonna get hurt! And I promise you, the skinny people will be first!

• Natalie Hollingsworth : I'm sure Hillary won't even let him have a dog.

  Sissy Emerson : Oh, I'm sure she will, and if they're smart, they'll make it a female. Then there can be someone else in The White House Newt Gingrich can call a bitch.

• Sissy Emerson : Now you see that? You've started a rumor. I mean, by tomorrow, that's gonna be all over town.

  Natalie Hollingsworth : And this from the queen of spreading rumors! Not to mention that when you first came here, you couldn't remember if Suzanne was a lesbian or if she had killed a man.

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : What the hell is this all about? I killed a man?

  Sissy Emerson : Oh, I was drinking then, and I was working for the Post. I can tell you now that it disgusts me.

  Jennifer Malone : You mean, because you unfairly maligned people?

  Sissy Emerson : No, because I was drinking during the wrong administration. I should have been drinking during the Reagan years.

• [Watching a horror movie] 

  Natalie Hollingsworth : This is just ridiculous! Here she's looked through the peephole, she sees what's out there, so she opens the door wearing a push-up bra with little hearts all over it, and she thinks he's gonna be happy with a fifty cent tip!

  Sissy Emerson : Excuse me, but I thought that's why we were monitoring these shows so that we could expose the kind of sexist thinking that you're espousing right now that says scantily-clad women deserve to be murdered! And that somehow it's sexy!

  Natalie Hollingsworth : I'm not saying she deserves it, I'm just saying that as women, it behooves us to be prudent!

  Sissy Emerson : And I'm saying that we have a right to walk down the street or answer the door any damn way we please and not get killed for it! Yes, Darlene is a stupid girl. Am I sorry she's gone? Not really. But she has a right to answer the door in that outfit!