"Bernice Niemeyer, at the desk, is a young girl definitely not of the ingenue type. This is at once her cross and (in her opinion) her greatest asset as an actress" (Acton I, Scene 1, p. 261).

"Don't forget I'll be Mrs. Robert Hendershot by that time, and Wisconsin's perfectly beautiful in the autumn - the whole Fox River valley - it's beautiful. (It's no use. She cannot convince even herself, much less the rather embarrassed young people about her)" (Act I, Scene 1, page 273).

"Listen! You're a producer and I'm an actress. What right have you got to barricade yourself behind closed doors and not see me! And hundreds like me! The greatest actress in the world might be coming up your stairs and you'd never know it" (Act I, Scene 1, p. 273).

"Oh, we didn't cry because we were sad. Mother cried because it brought back the days when she...