Who is Little Edie Beale

This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.  - Little Edie

Big Edie: 'Oh, look. That cat's going to the bathroom right behind my portrait.'

Little Edie: 'Ughh, how awful.'

Big Edie: 'No, I'm glad. I'm glad somebody's doing something what they want to do!'

'But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.' -Little Edie

'Horrors! Somebody's removing the books from my room! Where'd this little book come from?'-Little Edie

Big Edie: 'I'm gonna get naked in just a minute, so you better watch out!'

Little Edie: 'That's what I'm afraid of.'

'I love that smell. I thrive on it. It makes me feel good... I am not ashamed of anything. Where my body is a very precious place.' -Big Edie on the smell of the cats