- Sally Alexander: [speaking on TV about The Miss World Competition] The only other forum in which participants are weighed, measured and publicly examined before being assigned their value is a cattle market.
- Professor Davidson: [at the university interview] So, history, why have we never had a revolution in Britain?
- Sally Alexander: The civil war was was won by the rebels, but even then the new order only lasted a generation. So, surely, the real question is: Why have all our revolutions failed?
- Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada: First time away from home?
- Pearl Jansen - Miss Africa South: First time away from home. First time on a plane. First time being so cold. I'm the first black South African to take part in Miss World.
- Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada: I'm the first Miss Grenada too.
- Evelyn Alexander: And while you're off with your fanatics, Gareth and I are looking after your daughter. Seems to me liberation just means getting someone else to do your job for you.
- Sally Alexander: So you think it's all right do you that one half of the world has all of the power and the other half just has to lump it?
- Evelyn Alexander: Oh don't be so melodramatic.
- Sally Alexander: Don't be so blind. You couldn't even get a bank account without dad's permission. The doctor wouldn't give you birth control.
- Evelyn Alexander: That was one bank manager and one doctor.
- Sally Alexander: Just because you swallowed it, doesn't mean I have to.
- [last lines]
- Title Card: Attempts to bring down the patriarchy remain ongoing.
- [after security is increased]
- Jo Robinson: Oh I see. It's all got a bit too risky now, has it? A bit too much like the real thing?
- Sally Alexander: I-I came to warn you, but seeing as you already know...
- Jo Robinson: Well don't worry. Go and bugger off home. Leave it to us to make sure your daughter doesn't have to grow up in the same shitty world we did. Just remember, right, you get the world you deserve and if you don't fight you deserve the world you fucking get.
- Maj Johansson - Miss Sweden: I don't want to be the favourite if this is what it gets me.
- Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada: There's no point swimming against the tide. One just has to rise with it.
- Jo Robinson: Are you all right?
- Sally Alexander: Yes, I'm fine.
- Jo Robinson: Well there's obviously something wrong. Why don't you just say.
- Sally Alexander: It turns out my seat at the table is actually a high chair.
- Jo Robinson: What? And you're surprised?
- Evelyn Alexander: All this whining and complaining about the patriarchy. Other girls are perfectly happy as they are.
- Sally Alexander: Well I'm not a girl, I'm a woman.
- Evelyn Alexander: And what would have happened to you and your sisters if I had thought like you, if I had done what you're doing? Neglected my poky little domestic world, neglected my marriage, neglected my children? You think you can have the same freedoms as a man, but you can't. You can't.
- Abi: [Watching announcement of upcoming Miss World pageant on television, Abi grabs a quilt and starts parading around like she's Miss World] I'm Miss World lady.
- Evelyn Alexander: You look beautiful, darling.
- Sally Alexander: Mum. Don't.
- Evelyn Alexander: You and your sisters used to love playing Miss World.
- Evelyn Alexander: We'd used to like to eat our own snot.
- Sally Alexander: [at the university interview] I would never be late for lectures or miss deadlines. I would be mature. I would be a mature mature student.
- Bearded Marxist Professor: Your subject needs to have a genuine relevance. Best to steer clear of more minority interests.
- Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada: There will be little girls watching tonight who will see themselves differently because I won. Who might just start to believe that you don't have to be white to have a place in the world.