Gender and sexuality

Quote

Speaker

Why am I so catty? Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing?

Maggie

I had a friendship with Skipper. – You are naming it dirty!

Brick

I married you, Maggie. Why would I marry you, Maggie, if I was –?

Brick

You think that Skipper and me were a pair of dirty old men? Ducking sissies? Queers?

Brick

Don’t you know how people feel about things like that? How, how disgusted they are by things like that? Why, at Ole Miss when it was discovered a pledge to our fraternity, Skipper’s and mine, did a, attempted to do a, unnatural thing with – We not only dropped him like a hot rock! We told him to git off the campus.

Brick

When a marriage goes on the rocks, the rock are there.

Big Mama

Margaret raises her lovely bare arms and powders her armpits.

Williams

Nothing has fallen on me – not a fraction. . . [Her voice is soft and trembling: a pleading child’s.]

Maggie

The room must evoke some ghosts; it is gently and poetically haunted by a relationship that must have involved a tenderness which was uncommon.

Williams