"Law & Order" Working Mom (TV Episode 1997) - Elaine Stritch as Defense Attorney Lanie Stieglitz

Lanie Stieglitz : Peel off the testosterone patch Ms. Ross, you're thinking under the influence.

Jamie Ross : You can sing "I Am Woman" loud as you want, but it won't do your client any good.
Lanie Stieglitz : [during her closing summation] It's not often that Big Brother has to listen to your opinion. It happens every 4 years. And it happens when you have the privilege of sitting in this box. Hillary Colson shopped at Gap Kids. She goes to PTA meetings. She's also a prostitute. I don't like it anymore than you do. It disgusts me. I don't approve of serial adultery. She's endangered the lives of every member of her family in a pathetic search for what? Novelty? To fill a void in her life, maybe? I don't know. But I do know this. If this were a referendum on prostitution, I would say: "Throw her in jail and forget about the key". But it's not! That's not why she's on trial. She is on trial because she said no to an ex-police officer armed with a Colt revolver and the will to use it! An ex-police officer. Hmm? A bully who used sex to dominate women. She said no and she meant it! The bill of rights does not only apply to the June Cleavers of this country. Acquit my client and you say to Big Brother that any woman, regardless of her character, has got the right to say no, and has got the right to back it up! I'm not asking you to agree with prostitution, but I am begging you to disagree with rape.

Elaine Stritch: Defense Attorney Lanie Stieglitz