- Helen: Oh, Jo, why can't you learn from *my* mistakes? It takes half your lifetime to learn from your own.
- [Geoffrey gives Jo a pamplet which explains to new mothers how to look atfer a baby]
- Geoffrey: Here. Read this. When the baby comes, you won't know one end of it from the other.
- Jo: "Looking after baby". Isn't that nice? Third month: exercises, relaxation. Fourth month: constipation.
- Geoffrey: Drink that and shut up.
- Jo: I hate milk.
- Geoffrey: Well, get it drunk.
- Jo: Does it tell you how to feed babies, Geoffrey?
- Geoffrey: Even *you* know that.
- Jo: I know about *that* way - breast-feeding. I'm not having a little animal nibbling away at *me*. It's cannibalistic!
- Geoffrey: Stop trying to be inhuman. It doesn't suit you.
- [Jo kicks at a dead bird on a gravestone]
- Jo: Look at that. It's dead. A bit of love, a bit of lust, and there you are. We don't ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.