The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Stand by Your Man (1990)

Bea Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak

Quotes 

• Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : My mother talked me into getting her the new Stephen King.

  Librarian : Well, we do have the one that came out last Tuesday.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Well, as long as it's not about some little creature who finds new and inventive ways of terrorizing a household. It's for my mother. I don't want to give her any ideas.

• Blanche Devereaux : I certainly did grow up around some ignorant people. Do you know what horrible thing the folks in my neck of the woods did once when I was a young-un?

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : You mean besides using phrases like 'neck of the woods' and 'young-un'?

  Blanche Devereaux : They burned books! The townspeople made a big pile of 'em out in front of the library, and they threw a torch on top. Only, Big Daddy was outraged. He fought his way through that crowd, clawed his way to the top of that pile, grabbed that lit torch, and turned to that crowd and said, "What are you people doin'? This is lunacy. You start a fire from the bottom!"

• Sophia Petrillo : Please! Just because a man's in a wheelchair doesn't mean he can't satisfy a woman.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : What do you know about this, Ma?

  Sophia Petrillo : Picture it Sicily, 1914. A man in a wheelchair satisfies a woman. It's a short story, but I think it makes my point.