Trouble with Angels [1966]
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Mary Clancy: I've got the most scathingly brilliant idea!
Mother Superior: Rachel? Well, Rachel has a home and parents who love her. She's a follower, not a leader. She can be guided. But, Mary... oh, Mary has a will of iron. To bend but not to break... to yield but not capitulate... to have pride but also humility. This has always been my struggle, Sister. Can I be less tolerant of Mary than the church has been of me?
Rachel Devery: Couldn't we have uniforms, too, Reverend Mother?
Mother Superior: Most certainly not. The band will perform in their gym suits.
Rachel Devery: Our gym suits?
Mother Superior: Yes.
Mary Clancy: But, they're awful! I mean, it's not as if they were like Sacred Heart's. At Sacred Heart they wear short-shorts for gym.
Mother Superior: They're French.
Mother Superior: This is a Catholic school Mr. Gottschalk!
Mr. Gottschalk: Band uniforms are non-sectarian.
Mother Superior: As for the social graces, I'm convinced that your school encourages barbarism and concerns itself only with free thinking, free wheeling and finger-painting.
Mother Superior: God is on ours!
Mary Clancy: Hi, Marvel-Ann!
Marvel-Ann Clancy: Drop Dead!
Rachel Devery: Who's that?
Mary Clancy: Marvel-Ann. My uncle George is her father. He's been sending her to the nuns since she was six. I said she was illegitimate, so she hates me.
Rachel Devery: Is she?
Mary Clancy: Lord, no. Uncle George is very careful about that sort of thing.
Mary Clancy: Who knows, Reverend Mother, Maybe someday Rachel will come back and join the order.
Mother Superior: If she does, I quit!