- Florida Evans: [Willona refuses to talk to 13 year old Penny about sex, even though her friend is pregnant] Girl, look around, this isn't a finishing school, it's the ghetto! If you don't tell Penny about it she'll pick it up from the street, she's going to hear it wrong and from the wrong people.
- Florida: You know how J.J. is.
- Willona: Yeah, just like the two kids on the bus. Couldn't have been no more than Penny's age, they were in the back seat hugging and kissing so fast and furious that if the bus driver put on the brakes, the bus could've coastered through town on pure friction!
- Florida: Well, if parents would take the time to educate their kids about sex, they wouldn't have to cheapen it in the backseat of a bus.
- Willona: What parents? They teach sex in school now.
- Michael Evans: They do? I'm going back for my extra credit.
- Florida: Michael!
- Michael Evans: Just jiving, ma, just jiving.
- Willona: Penny, go home and wait for me.
- Millicent 'Penny' Woods: Okay, but I want you to know that it's no fun being by myself all the time. Sometimes I wish I had a baby.
- Florida: [to Willona] You're not gaining anything by letting Penny run around Chicago thinking that booster shots will keep her stomach down.
- Millicent 'Penny' Woods: [seeing Thelma and Keith kissing] Why did I ever see this ever see anything like this on Sesame Street?
- Keith Anderson: Because Big Bird can't pucker?
- Florida: [about Willona] What is wrong with that woman? Doesn't she know that every year, one million teenaged girls get pregnant in the country?
- J.J.: Imagine how many get pregnant in the city.
- Florida: J.J., out of that million, over 13,000 are ages 14 and under. It's a sad day when kids have to guess about sex because their parents are too scared to explain it to them.
- Florida: [to Willona after arguing with her] Goodbye Mother Goose, old woman in the shoe! Ain't got but one child and still don't know what to do!