The Virginian (1946)

Fay Bainter: Mrs. Taylor

Quotes 

• Mrs. Taylor : When you lynch a man, you take him out of jail, out of the rightful hands of the law. Here we have no policemen, no courts, and no jail. So we have to do things in our own way.

• Mrs. Taylor : We're building a country out here, and there's no place for weaklings, men or women.

• Mrs. Taylor : Why, when I was your age, I drove an ox team a thousand miles from Council Bluffs. I shot Comanches with my father lying dead across my knees.

  Molly Wood : My family built a country too. They worked and died just as bravely as you Westerners. Indians! Do you think you're the only ones that fought Indians? Did you ever hear of the Cherry Valley Massacre? My grandfather was killed in that, and my grandmother went 90 miles on foot to get help.

  Mrs. Taylor : And you're proud of them.

  Molly Wood : Of course I'm proud of them.

  Mrs. Taylor : It's too bad you're not more like them.