The Women (1939)

Joan Fontaine: Mrs. John Day (Peggy)

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• Sylvia Fowler : Well, heaven be praised, I'm on to my husband, I wouldn't trust him on Alcatraz, the mouse.

  Peggy Day : Sylvia, you oughtn't talk about him like that! Why, I think it's disloyal!

  Sylvia Fowler : Oh now, listen Peggy, do we know how the men talk about us when we're not around?

  Nancy Blake : I've heard rumours.

  Sylvia Fowler : Exactly... And uh... While we're on the subject, have either of you wondered whether the master of this maison might not be straying?

  Nancy Blake : I haven't.

  Sylvia Fowler : Well, for all you know Mary Haines may be living in a fool's paradise.

  Nancy Blake : You're so resourceful darling. I ought to go to you for plots.

  Sylvia Fowler : You ought to go to *someone*.

• Peggy Day : Oh, I wish I could make a little money writing the way you do!

  Nancy Blake : If you wrote the way I do, that's just what you'd make.

  Sylvia Fowler : You're not a very popular author, are you, dear?

  Nancy Blake : Not with you.

• Peggy Day : He beats you. Lucy, how terrible.

  Lucy : Ain't it. When you think of the lot of women on this ranch who need a beatin' more than I do.

• Peggy Day : [On the train]  Listen to the wheels, don't they seem to be saying something?

  Mary Haines : [Softly]  No.

  Peggy Day : Don't they seem to be saying... Go back, go back, go back, go back?

• Peggy Day : Edith, I think Sylvia is a perfectly dreadful woman and I'm going to tell her so.

  Edith Potter : Oh, darling, she can't help it. It's her tough luck that she wasn't born deaf and dumb.