- [Ruth is the on phone after seeing a news report about her]
- Ruth: You wanna send a message? I ain't no fucking telegram, bitch!
- Ruth: [pause] Nothing's wrong! I'm fine now. You think I'm a fool. You're the fool, cause guess what? This is a war and Diane's a spy. How bout that?
- [pause]
- Ruth: Now you're catching on!
- [pause]
- Ruth: Oh yeah! Well, you're a cunt!
- Ruth's Mother: Ruth, you listen to me! Don't you do it! What if I'd aborted you?
- Ruth: Well at least I wouldn't have had to suck your boyfriend's cock!
- Ruth's Mother: Don't you bring that up again! That's ancient history! I've been saved!
- Ruth: Fuck you!
- Clinic Nurse: Let me just ask you something, Ruth. Have you ever really taken the time to think about what it means to have an abortion?
- Ruth: Yeah, um, it means that I don't have to go to jail and it means I don't have to have another baby and it means that I can start getting my life together ...
- Clinic Nurse: I, I, I, I, I. Don't you think that's all just a little selfish?
- Ruth: I'm gonna stay here. and I'm gonna have that abortion like I wanted. 'Cause I'm a citizen and... and I got my rights to, um, PICK!
- Ruth: [after seeing a movie about abortion] I slept in a few dumpsters. Maybe I slept on some babies.