Allison Janney credited as playing...
Charlotte Phelan
- Charlotte Phelan: You know Hilly, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you've been eating too much *pie*.
- Charlotte Phelan: Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family.
- Rachel: Hello, Miss Charlotte.
- Charlotte Phelan: Rachel. We were expecting you next week.
- Rachel: I decided to come early and surprise Mama.
- [she opens screen door. Charlotte shuts it back in place]
- Charlotte Phelan: I'm entertaining. Why don't you go around back. Wait in the kitchen.
- [pause]
- Charlotte Phelan: Go on now.
- Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Constantine didn't do anything wrong. You love Rachel. I know you do.
- Charlotte Phelan: [about Grace Higginbotham] She was our president. What was I supposed to do?
- Charlotte Phelan: Rachel, what are you doing?
- Rachel: I'm just doing as I was told, Miss Charlotte. Going to the kitchen. But I'm going to see my mama first. Hello, Mama.
- Constantine Jefferson: Go on to the kitchen, baby. I'll be there directly.
- Gracie Higginbotham: You may put up with this kind of nonsense, but I do not.
- Charlotte Phelan: Get out of this house, Rachel.
- Gracie Higginbotham: You heard her. Go on, girl.
- Constantine Jefferson: Miss Charlotte, let me take her to the kitchen. Come on, baby. Let's go.
- Gracie Higginbotham: Charlotte.
- Charlotte Phelan: Both of you. Leave. Now.
- Rachel: Come on, Mama.