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"If you lived in the days when I was a girl and they had long graceful skirts sweeping the ground it might have been considered an asset. When you've got a slight disadvantage like that, you've just got to cultivate something else to take its place. You have cultivate charm- or vivacity or charm."

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Amanda mentioned that girls wore long dresses that sweep the ground.

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In the description for what Amanda is wearing before Act 1, Scene 2 starts it says "she has on one of those cheap or imitation velvety-looking cloth coats with imitation fur collar. Her hat is five or six years old, one of those dreadful cloche hats that were worn in the late twenties and she is clasping an enormous black patent leather pocketbooks with nickel clasps and initials.

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" I'm trying to save your eyesight. You've only got one pair of eyes and you've got to take care of them. Oh,I know that Milton was blind, but that's not what made him a genius

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"Why can't you sit up straight? So your shoulders don't stick through like sparrows wings?"

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" I did. I took that horrible novel back to the library - that awful book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of a diseased mind or people who cater to them, but I won't allow such filth in my house. No, no, no,no,no!"

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"After   the   fiasco   at   Rubicam's   Business   College,  the   idea   of   getting   a   gentleman  caller   for  Laura   began   to   play   a   more   and   more   important   part   in   Mother's   calculations.   It   became   an  obsession."

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"An   evening   at   home   rarely   passed   without   some   allusion   to   this   image,  this   spectre,  this   hope. "

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"AMANDA:   You   have   five   minutes.   I   want   to   talk   about   Laura.
TOM:   All   right!   What   about   Laura?
AMANDA:   We   have   to   be   making   some   plans   and   provisions   for   her.   She's   older   than   you,  two  years,  and   nothing   has   happened.   She   just   drifts   along   doing   nothing.   It   frightens   me   terribly   how  she   just   drifts   along.
TOM:   I   guess   she's   the   type   that   people   call   home   girls.  AMANDA:   There's   no   such   type,  and   if   there   is,  it's   a   pity   !   That   is   unless   the   home   is   hers,  with  a   husband   ! "

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"I   mean   that   as   soon   as   Laura   has   got   somebody   to  take   care   of   her,  married,  a   home  of   her   own,  independent   ?-  why,  then   you'll   be   free   to   go   wherever   you   please,  on   land,  on   sea, whichever   way   the   wind   blows   you   !  But   until   that   time   you've   got   to   look   out   for   your   sister.   I   don't   say   me   because   I'm   od   and   don't  matter  -  I   say   for   your   sister   because   she's   young   and   dependent.

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[To   JIM] " Have   you   met   Laura?  JIM:   She-
AMANDA:   Let   you   in?   Oh,  good,  you've   met   already!   It's   rare   for   a   girl   as   sweet   an'   pretty   as  Laura   to   be   domestic!   But   Laura   is,  thank   heavens,  not   only   pretty   but   also   very   domestic.   I'm  not   at   all.   I   never   was   a   bit.   I   never   could   make   a   thing   but   angel-food   cake.   Well,  in   the   South  we   had   so   many   servants.   Gone,  gone,  gone.   All   vestige   of   gracious   living   !   Gone   completely!   I  wasn't   prepared   for   what   the   future   brought   me.   All   of   my   gentlemen   callers   were   sons   of  planters   and   so   of   course   I   assumed   that   I   would   be   married   to   one   and   raise   my   family   on   a   large  piece   of   land   with   plenty  of   servants.   But   man   proposes   and   woman   accepts   the   proposal   !  -  To  vary   that   old,  old   saying   a   little   bit  -  I   married   no   planter!   I   married   a   man   who   worked   for   the  telephone   company!  -  That   gallantly   smiling   gentleman   over   there!   [Points   to   the   picture.]   A  telephone   man   who  -  fell   in   love   with   long   distance   I  -  Now   he   travels   and   I   don't   even   know  where   !  -  But   what   am   I   going   on   for   about   my  -  tribulations?  Tell   me   yours   ?   I   hope   you   don't   have   any   !   Tom? "

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Amanda only let Jim say one word

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I chose this song because Amanda wants Laura to be married and have a family and be normal