How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from All About Eve.
Quote #4
BILL: Only thing, what I go after, I want to go after. I don't want it to come after me.
Bill puts Eve in her place after she makes a pass at him. It's not her role to do that—he needs to be in control. We wish he would have left it at "I'm in love with Margo. Haven't you heard?"
Quote #5
MARGO: Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder, so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common— whether we like it or not—is being a woman. Sooner or later we've all got to work at it, no matter what other careers we've had or wanted... and, in the last analysis, nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is. Without that, you're not a woman.
This is a moving speech, but we can't call Margo Channing a feminist. She's not looking to change this ideal. She wants to conform to it. It's sad that even such a strong person needs a husband to feel like a real woman.