- Rachele Mussolini: [Looking at Claretta's big house] So... this is what a woman looks like when she is kept by the head of a nation... . look at me... after all I am only married to him.
- Claretta Petacci: Don't you call me kept!
- Rachele Mussolini: For the sake of Italy, signora, put an end to this tragic relationship.
- Claretta Petacci: What has Italy got to do with it? Why don't you tell me to give him up for his sake and not for Italy's?
- Rachele Mussolini: I take care of Benito Mussolini; he's my man.
- Claretta Petacci: But he needs me, I'm his spiritual support.
- Rachele Mussolini: Spiritual? You call that dress you're wearing, and those jewels spiritual?