Frances O'Connor credited as playing...
Lucy Burns
- Emily Leighton: I really don't follow politics, Ms. Burns. I haven't the head for it.
- Lucy Burns: We're citizens or we're chattle: you don't really need a degree from Harvard to figure that out.
- Ida Wells-Barnett: I'm told you expect Negro women to march in a separate unit. At the back.
- Alice Paul: Southern Suffrage groups threatened to withdraw...
- Ida Wells-Barnett: Are the ladies afraid we'll march out of step? Call their bluff.
- Alice Paul: We can't afford to lose their support. Not with the Democrats in office.
- Ida Wells-Barnett: Who's we? Women? Or just white women?
- Lucy Burns: Now wait a minute...
- Alice Paul: We have one agenda. Suffrage. Add another issue...
- Ida Wells-Barnett: If we don't stand up now, what happens to Negro women when you finally get the vote? They'll keep us out of the polling places any way they can.
- Alice Paul: Other colored groups have agreed to the compromise.
- Lucy Burns: Not perfect, but we've got to be practical.
- Ida Wells-Barnett: Dress up prejudice and call it politics? I expected more from a Quaker. I'll march with my peers, or not at all.
- Movie patron: Would you please be quiet?
- Alice Paul: My sister is blind; I have to read her the subtitles.
- Lucy Burns: [to Alice] That's it, you've ruined it. We're leaving.
- [Inez starts flailing her arms in front of her when she stands up, pretending to be blind]
- Lucy Burns: We're political prisoners. We wear our own clothes.
- Matron Herndon: You'll wear what they all wear.
- Lucy Burns: I want to see the warden.
- Matron Herndon: You want to see him naked?
- Lucy Burns: [mimicking/mocking Carrie] Do me a favor, don't question Susan's thoughts on cheese. We worked side by side with Susan. We worked cheek to cheek with Susan. She despised cheddar and she loathed Muenster.
- Alice Paul: It's warm in here. Can you open a window?
- Matron Herndon: Get to work.
- Alice Paul: Can't you see she looks faint? All I ask is that you open a window.
- Lucy Burns: Matron, my needle broke. Can I have another?
- [Alice takes off her shoe and throws it at the window, breaking it]
- Alice Paul: That's better, isn't it?
- Matron Herndon: Put her in solitary.
- Alice Paul: I found someone who designs parade floats.
- Lucy Burns: Whoa, I thought we were going to keep this small.
- Alice Paul: Why?
- Lucy Burns: Because you've never organized a parade before. Neither have I. It's not like giving a dinner party.
- Alice Paul: Have you ever given a dinner party?
- Lucy Burns: No.
- Alice Paul: Then what are you worried about?
- Lucy Burns: [talking about Carrie] I don't think she is a woman. Seriously, has anyone seen her naked?
- Lucy Burns: Don't argue with me! You're mama duck, we follow you. If you go down, they'll scatter. Use your head.