- Adele Adams: Those are my suffrage pamphlets.
- Lucas McCain: Suffrage? You mean women voting?
- Adele Adams: Yes. I'm starting a class in town tonight for the women on government.
- Lucas McCain: Government, huh?
- Adele Adams: Why not? It's a very serious matter, Mr. McCain.
- Lucas McCain: Well, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Miss Adams, but a woman voting is like raising a cow with a stallion.
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- Lucas McCain: Good morning, Ms. Adams.
- Adele Adams: Good morning, Mr. McCain. I brought Mark some books. How is he?
- Lucas McCain: Well, we seems to be better. The doctor says he'll be back in school next week.
- Adele Adams: Well, me we've missed. I remember when I had the measels. It took a lot of spoiling to get me well.
- Hattie Denton: He's going after that stage, just like I'd do if I was a man. Which I'm not, thank goodness.
- Hattie Denton: Mankind is a benevolent tyrant. Well, he's got to learn. Women are not cattle, not anymore.
- Lucas McCain: Well, that's too bad. I was thinking of getting me a few head.
- Mark McCain: Pa, I've been reading up on these pamplets and, well, wouldn't you have wanted ma to vote?
- Jed Healey: Pa, I don't want another chicken. It might die too.
- Old Man Healey: And that's a chance you'll have to take Jed when you're dealing with things that are weak.
- Mark McCain: [reading from Suffrage Pamplet] And so, gentlewomen of the gentler sex, we ask you to evaluate the meaning of the word freedom. We ask you to stand together, now, holding hands against the common tyrant that enslaves us... man?
- Lucas McCain: Mark, do you suppose we could go back to Moby Dick?