Yentl (1983)

Jack Lynn: Bookseller

Quotes 

• 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.