The Rose (Bette Midler, Alan Bates)

You know, you know sometimes, sometimes people say to me, "Rose, when's the first time you ever heard the blues?" And u know what i tell 'em? "The day i was born." You know why? You know why? 'Coz i was born a woman.
Ah! Oh! We got some noisy females in the house tonight! I do like to hear that high-pitched sound, you know I do.
Oh, being a woman is so interesting don't you find it?
What are we ladies, what are we? We are waitresses at the banquet of life! Get into that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans... and you better look pretty god-damned good doing it too or else you gonna lose your good thang!
Oh! And why do we dot that, why do we do that? I tell you why we do that, we do that to find looove. Oh, I love to be in love, don't you love to be in love? Ain't it just great to be in love?
Oh, ain't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful to be in love? Ain't it just grand laying there late at night in bed waiting for your man to show up? And when he finally does, round about four o'clock in the morning with whiskey on his breath and the smell of another woman on his person...
Oh, honey I can smell another woman at five hundred paces! That's a easy one to catch! So what do you do when he comes home with the smell of another woman on him?
Do you say, "Oh, honey, let me open up my loving arms and my loving legs! Dive right in, baby, the water's fine!" Is that what you say, girls?! Or do you say, "Pack your bags! I'm putting on my little waitress cap and my fancy high heel shoes. I'm gonna go find me a real man, a good man, a true man, a man to love me for sure."
You know I tell you something, I tell u something: I thought... at one time i actually thought i found myself one. I did, I thought I found myself one. When he... When he... When he held me in his arms... When he held me in his arms and say: "Baby, baby, baby, you're the only one for me!"

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'll trade the world for the good thing he found. Yeah, if she's bad, he can't see it. She can do no wrong. Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down. When a man loves a woman, spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs. He'll give up all his comforts, go out and sleep out in the rain, if she says, "Baby, that is how it's gonna be. "When a man loves a woman, gives her everything that he has, tryin' to hold on to her precious love, cryin, "Baby, baby please don't treat me bad." When a man loves a woman down deep in his soul, she can bring him such misery. Yeah, she's bad, but, oooh, he's the last one to know. Lovin' eyes don't ever see. So, this man says he loves me, he loves me. He gives me everything, everything, everything that he has, tryin' to hold on to my precious love, cryin', "Baby, baby, baby, don't you, don't you treat me, treat me bad." Ohhhh . . . yeah. When a man loves a woman he can do her no wrong. He could never hold another girl. Oh, you tell me you love me, baby, and gonna hold me tight. Baby, baby, this is a man's world. No, no. Oh, baby, a change is gonna come down in this man's world.