Ally McBeal, Season 2

Richard:
You're not who you are, you're only what other people think you are. Fishism.

Nelle:
Ling, how can it not be a little degrading, women stranding around in bathing suits ? Guys whooping?

Ling:
First, the women there make nearly a hundred thousand dollars a year. How? These drunken Neanderthals hurl money at them. Go into that club. You come out with a lower opinion of men, trust me.

Nelle:
That could be true, but these girls do make that money with their bodies.

Ling:
They make it, by teasing men with something they'll never get their hands on. That goes to the very essence of a woman.

Nelle:
Excuse me?

Ling:
Sex is a weapon. We all use it, we tease, we tantalize, we withhold it, something we do in almost every walk of life, be it marriage, business. God gave us that advantage by giving men the dumb stick.

Ray:
So, as a woman, you see nothing wrong with putting out naked girls in a ring, rubbing mud on their breasts for the sole purpose of titillating men?

Ling:
No.

Ray:
Nothing at all ?

Ling:
Suppose we put them in a ring as boxers and cheer for one to knock the other unconscious. Would that be better?

Ray:
You're comparing boxing to mud-wrestling ?

Ling:
Of course not. Boxing is worse. Talk about reducing people -- let's pay two men to beat on each other, how rich!

Ray:
Have you ever met any women in your club ?

Ling:
Why should I?

Ray:
Never bothered to check out their backgrounds, find out why it is their living is based on sexual desires?

Ling:
It would be hypocritical for me to ask. It would suggest I care.

Ray:
Maybe a few of them feel like they have little choice. Perhaps for some it represents their only choice.

Ling:
Well, then how lucky they are to have you to take that choice away! With feminists like you, who needs chauvinism?

Ally:
She's my hero. She's vicious, I disagree with almost everything she says, she treats me like dirt, and somehow she's my hero.

Georgia:
Nelle?

Nelle:
Yes, Georgia?

Georgia:
It's one thing to say that. Why do we have to be the lawyers doing it?

Nelle:
I just want to tie you up in court while I tie up Billy. Kidding.

. Ally :
three lawyers, he calls me 35 and none of you object?!