There ought to be a home for dames like me. Yup. We should have organized. You know, a house somewhere with with no mirror in it.

— Sally McKee (Jan Sterling)

12 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:02:14 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Talking. Honey, you don't know what you're asking.

- I'll tell you a good joke on me.

- You know, I always dreaded the idea of becoming an old woman and from the way things look now, I won't have to worry about it anymore.

- You know, I haven't been whistled at in years.

- And the idea of growing roses for the rest of my life was really beginning to haunt me.

- There ought to be a home for dames like me. Yup. We should have organized. You know, a house somewhere with with no mirror in it.

- Far away, where we'd never have to look at a young girl.

- They have homes for unmarried mothers.

- But everybody forgets about the girls who never quite managed to make things legal.

- I think I could start one.

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