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vive la différence:

French for hooray for the difference between the sexes.

QUOTE: Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn) and her husband Adam (Spencer Tracy) in the reconcilion scene at the end of Adam's Rib (1949):
-- Amanda : ' There is no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same. '
-- Adam : ' They are, hum? '
-- Amanda : ' Well, maybe there is a difference but it's a little difference .'
-- Adam : ' Well you know what the French say. '
-- Amanda : ' What do they say? '
-- Adam : 'Vive la différence.'
-- Amanda : ' Which means? '
-- Adam : ' Which means: Hooray for that little difference. '


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