Nancy Meek: Johnny, I just learned something.
Johnny MacKay: Yes?
Nancy Meek: Why women in the West seem happier than those back East.
Johnny MacKay: Red women or white?
Nancy Meek: Both. It's knowing they're needed. If a woman's needed - if she knows she's wanted... I'm going to stay. I think I can be needed here. I hope I will be.


--Audrey Dalton (as Nancy Meek) in Drum Beat

Ruth: A woman always knows more than her man thinks.


--Audrey Dalton (as Ruth) in The Prodigal