Secrets of Women (1952)

Eva Dahlbeck: Karin

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Quotes 

• Karin : Women should talk to each other more openly and more often. We should share our experiences and comfort each other. We shouldn't be affected by men's silly need for prestige and secrecy.

• Fredrik Lobelius : No man is great in the presence of their wife.

  Karin : No. God is probably not married.

• Karin : Women are women. We all have the same bodily equipment, more or less perfect.

• Fredrik Lobelius : If I can confess something to you, Karin, it is that the worst thing I know next to snakes, rats and communists is to be trapped in a very small space. I'm actually sweating a little.

  Karin : The strong displays a weakness. Hooray. Hooray.

• Karin : Jealous?

  Fredrik Lobelius : A bit.

  Karin : It pleases me. It pleases me, my dear. It pleases me, my Othello.

• Fredrik Lobelius : Today the firm will be without a captain at the helm.

  Karin : What will he be doing?

  Fredrik Lobelius : He's gone ashore.

  Karin : Sleeping in the arms of a bad girl.

  Fredrik Lobelius : The entire day he'll sleep next to a bad girl.

  [kisses Karin's cleavage] 

• Fredrik Lobelius : I think you could have worn more clothes on an evening like tonight. I was terrified that the décolletage would fall into the ice cream. Most likely you were half-naked just to annoy me.

  Karin : How did you guess?

  Fredrik Lobelius : At your age, you should wear more clothes.

• Fredrik Lobelius : What about his concubine?

  Karin : I ran into her on Sturegatan Street yesterday. She looked ready to give birth.

  Fredrik Lobelius : What?

  Karin : Give birth. You know, that indisposition that happens to women on occasion.

  Fredrik Lobelius : I'll be damned. I thought she looked decent.

  Karin : Her reputation is supposedly not the best.

• Karin : At your age, dear Fredrik, one easily confuses the characteristics of young attractive women. It supposedly has something to do with internal secretions.

• Karin : Did you hurt yourself?

  Fredrik Lobelius : No! But my cigar and my glasses are destroyed. That's what happens when women fix things.

  Karin : Did I build the elevator?

  Fredrik Lobelius : The builder's mother was most likely a woman.

• Karin : Sweetheart, don't be sad. I'm sure they'll save us before we starve to death or start eating each other.

• Karin : Can't I sit on you lap?

  Fredrik Lobelius : That too?

  Karin : Fifteen years ago you'd have been lucky to sit like this with me.

  Fredrik Lobelius : Don't be silly. Fifteen years ago you weighed less.

  Karin : You're no Adonis yourself.

• Karin : Don't you know that women really blossom after 35?

  Fredrik Lobelius : No. I refuse to know it.

  Karin : Too bad. We could have a lot of fun, you and I.

• Karin : Can't we kiss each other in the cover of darkness?

• Karin : Just think how nasty women can be.

• Fredrik Lobelius : I like women.

  Karin : And despise them.

  Fredrik Lobelius : No more than I despise myself, which isn't much.

• Karin : I've forbidden you to wear short underwear.

• Fredrik Lobelius : It feels nice when you rub. You were a good physical therapist once upon a time. You'll get to massage me in the mornings like before.

  Karin : Thank you, dear God. Does it feel better now?

• Fredrik Lobelius : What do you like least about me?

  Karin : The bossy tone. "Really? Yes. Indeed." What do you like least about me?

  Fredrik Lobelius : That you tease me.

  Karin : Am I teasing you now?

  Fredrik Lobelius : Your cleavage is very becoming.

  Karin : Can you see that in the dark?

  Fredrik Lobelius : No. Not see.

  [kisses Karin's cleavage] 

• Karin : A little dalliance in the elevator. It'll be something to tell the grandchildren.

  Fredrik Lobelius : No. Be quiet.

  Karin : I'm not going to say a word.