Dorothy, Sophia and others in “The Bloom is Off the Rose”

Dorothy

You know what the joke going around the teacher's lounge was today, Ma? Me.

Sophia

I know that joke.

Dorothy

Everybody heard on the radio that some anonymous Ma was complaining that her dependent daughter Dorothy doesn't have a life of her own.

Sophia

What, you think you're the only gray-haired spinster substitute teacher named Dorothy wasting her life away in Miami?

Rose

I'm sorry, Sophia, but in Dorothy's defense, that sure does sound a lot like her.