A View from the Bridge Women and Femininity Quotes

Catherine: "He still thinks I'm a baby."
Beatrice: "Because you think you're a baby." (1.483-484)

Beatrice is basically telling her niece that no one else will see her as a woman until she sees herself that way.

Beatrice: "Like when he comes home sometimes you throw yourself at him like when you was twelve years old." (1.490)

Why is it so bad that Catherine greets Eddie affectionately? How is that girlish?

Beatrice: "You're a woman […] and now the time came when you said goodbye." (1.504)

Does this mean that a girl becomes a woman only after leaving her father figure?