On the way to writing the 500-plus reviews in Movies About Women, co-authors Susan Winlaw and Alexander Law heard a lot of great quotes from the movies’ stars.

Here are 15 of their favorites taken from the guide, which celebrates over 200 movies about women that were directed by more than 150 women:

1.  “What was I so scared of that you were a better choice?” Holly Hunter asks her cheating husband in Living Out Loud.

2.  “Gerry, I’m a woman. We don’t say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don’t get it. That’s what makes us so fascinating, and not a little bit scary.” Jeanne Tripplehorn to Gwyneth Paltrow’s boyfriend in Sliding Doors.

3.  “Suddenly I saw her in frosted lipstick wearing a Dairy Queen uniform.” Diane Keaton explains why she didn’t give her young niece up for adoption to a country couple, in Baby Boom.

4.  “Well of course she’ll listen to you, you’re not her mother.” Shirley MacLaine to Meryl Streep’s agent in Postcards From The Edge.

5.  “My fantasies are so much more explicit. I mean, I disgust myself sometimes.” Dana Delany to Kim Cattrall and other female friends in Live Nude Girls.

6.  “Frankly, honey, there’s no way you could be a woman; only a man could be this selfish.” Jessica Lange to her sex change-seeking husband in Normal.

7.  “I want a baby. I can’t explain it, it’s like being hungry or having to pee.” Helen Hunt to Bette Midler in Then She Found Me.

8.  “If I was a man I could have had all the children I wanted and still danced.” Anne Bancroft makes clear the hard truth of being a ballet star in The Turning Point.

9.  “It hurts less to sell yourself to strangers.” Barbra Streisand explains why she became a call girl rather than take money from her parents, in Nuts.

10. “You slept with my brother, how could he think you’re a lesbian?” Anne Heche to Catherine Keener in Walking And Talking.

11. “I don’t want it all, I just want a really nice piece of it.” Annette Bening tells Meg Ryan her new life goal in The Women.

12. “Trust me, George, a woman never appears more intelligent to a man than when she’s listening to him.” Renée Zellweger to her son in My One And Only.

13. “Look at this, Jenna. As you can plainly see, my left boob is much higher than my right boob, and Dawn here has pasty, pasty skin. I’m stuck in a marriage to drooling Phil the invalid and Dawn eats TV dinners alone, but still we wouldn’t rather be you.” Cheryl Hines to Keri Russell in Waitress.

14. “I don’t act this way to change the world. I act this way so that the world won’t change me.” Patricia Charbonneau in Desert Hearts.

15. “I am the man in charge.” Nicole Kidman in The Peacemaker.