KATE. Oh, a handsome doctor with curly gray hair. And you, Grace?
GRACE. Oh, I want to be a lawyer, a plump, jolly lawyer. And you, Edith?
EDITH. I want to be an editor.
GRACE. Republican or Democrat?
EDITH. I don't know. The kind with a big automobile. And you, Ida?
IDA. I want to be a politician.
Mat. An honest one, of course.
IDA. Well, no. A successful politician. And you, May?
Mat. I want to run a vegetable market, where the women can come with their market baskets.
SUSAN. Where the men can come with their market baskets, (to PAULINE) And you, you poor creature, have you never felt the longing to usurp man's sphere? Have you never longed to do a man's work?