- Edda Mussolini-Ciano: Why shouldn't I see a lot of young men? Nineteen's too young to get married!
- Benito Mussolini: Your mother wasn't much older than that when you were born.
- Edda Mussolini-Ciano: But she was almost thirty before you married her, wasn't she? You expect me to wait until I'm thirty?
- Benito Mussolini: We were socialists then, we didn't believe in marriage.