Stella Stevens credited as playing...
Sister George
- [first lines]
- Sister George: [carrying a sign, returning from a protest] Not a single arrest today, Mother!
- Mother Superior: [sarcastically] Don't get discouraged, I'm sure you'll do better next time.
- Father Chase: Sister's a real firebrand, isn't she, Mother?
- Mother Superior: Let's hope she doesn't intend to burn down the Church.
- Sister George: No, just... warm it up a bit.
- Sister George: Mother, did sister Clarissa tell you about the bus?
- Mother Superior: What about the bus?
- Sister George: The springs are shot, the radiator leaks, the clutch slips, the block's cracked, and we need new tires. The bus will never make it 'cross country.
- Sister Clarissa: It certainly will! Chuck down at the service station says there's still plenty of life in the old girl.
- Sister George: Chuck at the service station doesn't know his - gasket - from a casket! The only thing holding that old jalopy together is prayer!
- Sister Clarissa: What's wrong with prayer?
- Sister George: Well, nothing, Sister. Every time I get into that old heap I pray to God - for a new bus!
- Sister George: Right now, Reverend Mother wouldn't give either one of you a free pass to a disaster.
- Mother Superior: When our girls leave here, Sister, they are educated.
- Sister George: They're literate, not educated. There is a difference, Mother.
- Sister George: My lecture was intended to alert the class to the dangers in ordinary household chemicals. I certainly never expected the girls to use that information to make a bomb. Who would?
- Mother Superior: I would. But then I've had 20 years in which to familiarize myself with the Machiavellian workings of the adolescent mind.
- Mother Superior: Our building is antiquated.
- Sister George: Oh! Not half as antiquated as some of the Sisters.
- Sister George: How about if, just this once, we blow tradition? Why don't you borrow some of Rosabelle's records and get an idea of, uh, how the kids are swinging?
- Sister George: I want to make a meaningful contribution. And I want to make it with joy! If I conduct myself like a 20th Century woman, I don't want to be patronized by people who say: "Oh, look at that darling little nun. She's just like a real person." I am a real person. Flesh, blood, feelings and convictions.
- Father Chase: That's for sure!
- Sister George: Wherever we go, our faith goes with us. And we hold it up for all to see. Faith, like - like love - should be shared, not hoarded.
- Sister George: You certainly run a swinging school, Father.
- Father Chase: We try.
- Sister George: We should have a dance like this at the end of each term. I know our Bishop would approve. He's really responsible for our being here. Isn't that right, Mother?
- Mother Superior: Yes. Bless him.
- Sister George: There's a new wind blowing through the church, and I...
- Mother Superior: A new wind is fine, but we can do without a typhoon.