Secrets of Women (1952)

Aino Taube: Annette

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• 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.

• Annette : I have my life. My only life. And that's my life with Paul. I'm sure we loved each other as eagerly as Maj and Henrik do now. But what have we become? Two bowing Chinese.