- Tillie: No one's supposed to know. A woman's cycle is a shameful thing.
- Anne Shirley: Why?
- Diana Barry: It's "unmentionable", that's why.
- Anne Shirley: That's not a reason...
- Josie Pye: Why don't you ever understand anything?
- Anne Shirley: Marilla said it's God's plan, so doesn't that make it good? I mean, we can make a whole person. Where's the shame in that?
- Marilla Cuthbert: Anne, you are not dying. You're in your womanly flowering time, and it's perfectly normal.
- Anne Shirley: But I'm not ready to be a woman!