Yentl (1983)

Barbra Streisand: Yentl

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• Yentl : Why is it that every book I buy, every bookseller has the same old argument?

  Yentl's Father : You know why.

  Yentl : I envy them.

  Yentl's Father : The booksellers?

  Yentl : No, not the booksellers, the students. Talking about life, the mysteries of the universe and I'm learning how to tell a herring from a carp.

  Yentl's Father : Yentl, for the thousandth time, men and women..."

  Yentl : [cuts him off]  have different obligations, I know, but...

  Yentl's Father : [cuts her off]  and don't ask why.

  Yentl's Father : [sees her disappointment]  Go on, get the book.

  Yentl : Thank you, papa!

  Yentl's Father : The shutters, darling.

  Yentl : We don't have to hide my studying from God, then why the neighbors?

  Yentl's Father : Why? Because I trust God will understand. I'm not so sure about the neighbors.

• Anshel : Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

• Avigdor : I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

  Yentl : It's not the first time.

• Bookseller : You're in the wrong place, storybooks for women are over here.

  Yentl : [holding a book]  I'd like this one, please.

  Bookseller : [takes the book away]  Sacred books are for men.

  Yentl : Why?

  Bookseller : It's the law.

  Yentl : Where's it written?

  Bookseller : It doesn't matter where it's written, it's the law.

  Yentl : Well if it's the law it must be written somewhere, perhaps in here

  [the book] 

  Yentl : . I'll take it.

• Yentl : I love you, papa.