Crimes of the Heart Quotes

Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Why'd you do it, Babe ? Why'd you put your head in the oven?
Rebeca 'Babe': I don't know ... I'm having a bad day.

Movie: Crimes of the Heart
Rebeca 'Babe': You know, Chick's hated us ever since we had to move here from Dixieville to live here with old grandmama and old granddaddy.
Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Well, she's an idiot.
Rebeca 'Babe': Yeah. You know what she said to me this morning when I was still behind bars and couldn't get away?
Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: What?
Rebeca 'Babe': She told me how embarrassing it was for her all those years ago. You know, when mama...
Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Yeah, down in the cellar.
Rebeca 'Babe': She said our mama had shamed the entire family and that we were known notoriously all through Hazelhurst. Then she went on to say how I would now be getting just as much bad publicity and humiliating her and the family all over again.
Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Just forget about it Babe.
Rebeca 'Babe': I told her, I said mama got national courage, NATIONAL! If Zachery wasn't a senator from Copiah County, I probably wouldn't even get statewide!
Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Of course you wouldn't.

Movie: Crimes of the Heart