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Concerns About Future Challenges and Consequences
Tweety
Verena's gone, St. Ambrose is taking over, and next year I'm going to have to face Todd Winslow every day at breakfast. I WANT TO RETCH AND DIE.
Momo
They're going to pull down our grades.
Tinka
They're going to pull down more than that.
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The Burden of Beauty Standards
Verena Von Stefan
Right. Just imagine, we'll have to wash our hair every night. We'll have to sleep on rollers til our scalps bleed. Then we'll have to get up at six every morning for the comb out. Your lungs will be lined with hairspray. Then you need all this equipment to push up the tits and blitz the zits and spray the pits! Then you stagger into class and you look perfect but you're exhausted, you're too tired to even think but that's okay the teachers they won't call on you anyway, also you don't want to be smarter than the boys. They don't like that, so to wake yourself up you drink some coffee at lunch but don't eat the food. You'll be on a permanent diet!
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Radical Education Awaits You
Taglines
Get ready for a radical education.
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Isolation in a Chaotic Environment
Odie Sinclair
They think I'll be safe surrounded by high walls and lesbians. This is the end of the world. One look tells you, this place eats the hairy bird.
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Dreams Beyond Finishing School Expectations
Verena Von Stefan
In the D.A.R., we all share our most secret dreams of what we want to be. You see, most of the girls here at Miss Godard's, they've got all the opportunities to become something: a good upbringing, a great education, they're loaded. But in ten years they'll all be married with three kids and two cars and a Colonial and a collie—they're finished. That's why it's called a finishing school. But we—the D.A.R.—have other plans for ourselves.
[explaining the purpose of the D.A.R.]
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Embracing change and letting go of traditions
Verena Von Stefan
No more little white gloves.
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Every Girl's Secret Desire Unveiled
Taglines
Every girl has a secret desire...
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Empowerment Through Teamwork and Friendship
Taglines
Girls on Top!
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Grounded and Defiant: A School Decision
Abby
Odette Sinclair, the Committee has decided not to recommend expulsion and to give you another chance. However, you are grounded for the remainder of the school year.
Odie
I would like to rebut.
Susie
You're not allowed a rebuttal.
Odie
It's a filibuster. I have the floor.
Abby
We don't allow that, either.
Odie
What is this, a ]?
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Defending Their Beloved Place Together
Taglines
Someone is trying to ruin their favorite place in the world, and these friends aren't going to take it lying down. So they're going on...tagline used for UK and Canada release which was titled Strike!
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Humorous Banter About Boys at School
Tinka
It's what we've always wanted, boys at Miss Godard’s.
Verena
Oh yeah you'd just go out and greet them with open legs.
Odie
Hey, now they're going to have to call it Ms. Go-nads.
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Contrasting Perspectives on Hometown Feelings
Odie
I loathe and deplore this place.
Verena
I don't see how you can say that when you're from Detroit.
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A Playful Expression of Frustration
Odie Sinclair
Up your ziggy with a wa-wa brush.
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Unexpected News in the Classroom
Mr. Dewey
Verena, why are you so late? You've missed an entire period.
Verena Von Stefan
You mean I'm pregnant?
[gasps]
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Dealing with Jealousy and Isolation
Abby
They all...hate me. Sometimes I just want to rip off my stars and be just like everyone else.
[sobbing]
Mrs. Sawyer
Abby Sawyer, when you are at the top, there are always jealous people at the bottom who try to bring you down. Well, you just stick out your chin and say "POO.
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Confronting Identity and Peer Pressure
Tweety
I'm not going to change the way I am just cause boys are around.
Verena
Oh come off it, Tweety. I've seen you at school dances, it's like ]. You turn into this simpering fawning wretch, and the whole next week we have to put up with your suicide attempts because your date didn't like you!
[[w: The Three Faces of Eve|The Three Faces of Eve]
Tweety
Verena!
Momo
Now you've done it. That was really uncalled for, *Vagina*.
[to Verena]
Tinka
Look, Von Stefan, I know you like this place the way it is, but wake up, it's not real life. Real life is boy-girl-boy-girl.
Verena
No! Real life is boy *on top* of girl!
Momo
Would you two stop it?
Verena
You should know that.
[to Tinka]
Odie
Look, it looks like this is gonna happen whether we like it or not so we're just gonna have to adjust.
Tinka
Yes, we're gonna have to adjust.
Verena
Where would we be today if President Kennedy had said “Oh well, we'll just have to adjust to living in the shadow of nuclear warheads on Cuba?”
Momo
There ya go.
Odie
They're just boys, Verena, not communists.
Verena
I'm not gonna live in the shadow of the Hairy Bird!
Tinka
Well that's your prob! You're afraid of boys!
Verena
You'd be afraid of boys, too, except you've got nothing left to lose, Miss Tinka!
Momo
Order! Order!
Tinka
Prude!
Verena
Tramp!
Tweety
Truce! Quiet. Come on, have some ravioli.
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Tea and Cigarettes Exchange
Miss McVane
More tea?
Verena
No, thank you.
Miss McVane
Cigarette?
Verena
Sure.
Miss McVane
Catch.
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