Secrets of Women (1952)

Anita Björk: Rakel

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• Rakel : I'm not your property that you can treat as you want.

• Annette : We're sitting around waiting on our men and we're all nervous because we haven't seen them for weeks. And then we're all going to be here on vacation for a few days. All of us together. Without privacy for our personal sorrows and problems. It wasn't be a vacation for me.

  Rakel : Dear Annette, we had the impression that you and Paul had a good relationship.

  Annette : Of course we do. We say, "Good day," Good-bye," "Good morning, darling" and "Good night, sweetie." "How's your day been?" "Tonight it's Bergman's." "We're going to the Pyrenees this year." "I'm buying a camera." But we're never close to each other. There's never any intimacy or contact. Sometimes I wish he would beat me.

  Rakel : Can't you speak with him?

  Annette : It wouldn't work. He'd only get embarrassed.

  Maj : Cheat on him.

  Rakel : Hush, child. You've read too many tabloids.

• Rakel : We'll have to try to comfort each other.

• Rakel : He's writing his thesis. Antiquity studies.

  Kaj : Colossally interesting.

• Kaj : Don't look like you think I'm going to seduce you.

  Rakel : Seduce? You? Me?

  [laughs] 

  Rakel : I'd like to see that.

  [Kaj kisses Rakel] 

  Rakel : You're not at all shameless.

  Kaj : You're just like when we were kids. You're just as soft and indulgent. Just as pretty and fragrant. And just as flushed and irritated afterwards.

• Rakel : Kaj, we have to know what we're doing. We have to take responsibility. We're not just dogs in heat.

• Rakel : When you grabbed me up there in the room and pressed your head against my stomach it was so strange. You have to be nice to me.

  Kaj : I'll be just like you want.

• Rakel : I'm going to tell Eugen that we cheated on him today.

  Kaj : Was that necessary?

  Rakel : You think I enjoy sleeping with you, don't you? Because you're a nice, talented and considerate lover. But let me tell you something, Kaj. You disgust me. And you're not a good lover. Do you know why? You only love yourself. Only yourself and nobody else in the entire world. Only yourself.

  Kaj : If I'm disgusting, so are you, my dear Rakel. You needed that little ecstasy that Eugen always denied you. And I gave it to you.

• Eugen Lobelius : You have destroyed my entire existence. You, the only person I trusted. You have deserted me for another. You maybe also told certain stories from our sex life. To save yourself and your morals. Is it my fault that you become stiff and...

  Rakel : That's beside the point, Eugen.

  Eugen Lobelius : Beside the point? Oh, no. Don't try to weasel out of this one. Let me tell you something, before I met you I was with other women and I was considered a pretty good lover. And it's damn strange that just you - Well, whose fault do you think it is?

• Rakel : Think about it. Don't do anything you might regret. Don't do anything you might regret, Eugen.

• Rakel : I've come to realize that Eugen is my child and it's my duty to take care of him. I feel sorry for him. He suffers greatly from what he calls his meaninglessness. Yet, he means everything to me now.