A scene from West Side Story 1961
Bernardo

Now I will not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk. I am here longer than you, Maria...Someday, when you're an old married woman with five children, then you can tell me what to do. Right now, it's the other way around. Now go to bed.

Anita

[To Maria]

He's the old married woman. [To Bernardo] You know, she has a mother. Also a father.

Bernardo

They do not know this country any better than she does.

Anita

And you do not know it at all. Girls here are free to have fun. She is in America now.

Bernardo

Puerto Rico is in America now.

Anita

Sometimes I don't know which is thicker. Your skull or your accent.

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