- [first lines]
- Agatha Stone: Are we to be treated as only another possession by the men of this world, to be listed along with their cattle and their sheep? Oh, yes, we're good enough to bear their children, but not good enough to vote!
- Agatha Stone: Marshal, are you against our cause?
- Marshal Simon Fry: I ain't against anything that's legal, ma'am. It's a free country - you got a right to hold meetin's'; it's my job to protect your rights.
- Agatha Stone: Well, thank you, Marshal... I think.
- Marshal Simon Fry: [to Agnes] Herk Lamson ain't said a harsh word to a lady in 40 years.
- [after Agnes leaves, Simon's deputy stares at him in amazement]
- Marshal Simon Fry: I was tellin' the truth, Sam. Herk ain't said a harsh word to a lady in 40 years... 'cause he wouldn't waste one word on any of 'em!
- Fran McCord: Clay, I'm chairman of the reception committee.
- Clay McCord: Ch...? Why didn't you tell me?
- Fran McCord: I didn't think you'd be interested.
- Clay McCord: You know I'm always interested in a troublemaker.
- [the bartender gives Hodges a bottle of whiskey]
- Willis: My pleasure, Mr. Hodges - on the house.
- Sam Hodges: Nothing for me, thanks, Willis. I never touch the stuff - except for snakebite.
- Willis: You're the biggest distributor in the territory. I buy every bottle and barrel from you.
- Sam Hodges: And I control most of the dance halls and the girls who work in them... that doesn't mean I fandango.
- [Agatha rents a room above the saloon]
- Herk Lamson: Marshal Fry asked me to look out for you, Miss Stone, but you sure ain't makin' it easy.
- Agatha Stone: Oh, you object to my staying here?
- Herk Lamson: Yes, ma'am.
- Agatha Stone: Well, thank you, Marshal. I appreciate your concern, but not the reason for it.
- Clay McCord: Herk, I swear she climbed on that horse nine times. Nine times!
- Herk Lamson: Bless my soul.
- Clay McCord: "If you're goin' to stay aboard," I said to her, "you gota hang on with everything you got - hands, feet, legs, knees, fingernails - everything!" After a while it was just a question of who was going to give up first - Miss Stone or the horse. She wouldn't, so the horse finally did.
- Gloria Jennings: There's a word for those who desert a sinking ship.
- Agatha Stone: Oh, Gloria, you-you musn't blame them. Besides, that ship hasn't sunk yet.
- Herk Lamson: It sure was a sight to behold, but it'll only make them women get bigger ideas. Someday we're liable to have a lady marshal.
- Clay McCord: Ah, so that's why you're on the same side as Hodges.
- Herk Lamson: Clay, don't go classifying me with that smoothy who gets rich off saloons and dance halls.
- [last lines]
- [Clay addresses the women's suffrage meeting]
- Clay McCord: Ladies, for the benefit of those of you who ain't heard what happened, why Miss Agatha, why Miss Agatha took sick... but that wouldn't stop her from comin' to the meetin', no sirree. And since she already prepared her speech, why, she asked me to read it for her. "We the women of America..."
- [women in the suffrage meeting break into gales of laughter]