- TV Reporter: Could you tell us more precisely what it's about?
- Gunilla: Well, it's rather hard to explain. It's about how things stand... now.
- Liz Lindstrand: To be a bit more precise, it's about... women and war.
- Marianne: I thought it was about girls and boys.
- Liz Lindstrand: Is it at all possible to change one another and the world we live in? Can we? Can we change ourselves?
- Liz Lindstrand: Don't you understand that it's we who make the world what it is?
- Thommy: They never take anything seriously.
- Hugo: What woman ever does?
- Hugo: We are once again free men! At some point in history - I won't bother you with details - we put women in their place. They gave up and henceforth did as they were told. We thought that that would all continue. But we had nurtured a viper at our breast, if you'll permit the expression. We thought they were tamed, but they started to revolt again. They started to speak, and have opinions. But now, gentlemen, that's all done with!
- Gunilla: Women! Put away your knitting and your fish slices! Stop bringing up your sons as well - paid slaves in our welfare state. We can demonstrate! There are at least a million women in the country between 20 and 60. If we're united, what a gigantic demonstration it would be! It'll scare our rulers stiff. What? Nothing to complain about? That mustn't stop us complaining! So you think everything's all right the way it is? How about our day-care centers and housemaids? When will they be tax-deductible? How about wages for housewives? How many of you housewives get that? Plus holiday pay!
- Hugo: Do you know what I think? I don't think women ever existed!
- Carl: Whatever the case, we've always behaved as if they didn't.
- Carl: What did Liz actually do to cause all the fuss in the papers?
- Hugo: She began taking things seriously.
- Carl: Seriously.
- Hugo: Yes. Almost!
- Marianne: I know what you all want. Something you can never have. That's life, girls. Isn't it just great?
- Liz Lindstrand: Maybe we can't manage much better than the men. But they're no good at honesty. They've proved that. This is our chance to act, so why don't we?
- Gunilla: It's the principles that count. Those principles are far more important than private life. But we haven't formulated them yet. We've had too much to do. Too many diapers to change.
- Marianne: Shout and scream all you want, no one listens to us anyway. Let's compromise as we always do. Let us always be sure to do our duty as mothers. As mistresses. Even as wives. So we go down in history as the sex that always says, "Yes, yes, yes," when we should be saying "No! No! No!"
- Liz Lindstrand: Women. I'm starting to side with the men. They're right. We're ignorant, lazy, easily scared, and conservative. And scatterbrained, too. How will we ever be capable of improving the situation? What are we so scared of? We're just as responsible as the men for the world.
- Hugo: You were fantastic on TV, darling.
- Liz Lindstrand: I'm always fantastic.
- Carl: You should see her in bed! And in the kitchen.
- Bengt: Hello, darling.
- Gunilla: Hello, bearer of tidings. Are you bearing a spear under your toga?
- Bengt: What did you say?
- Gunilla: Oh, just a line from the play.
- Bengt: You actors always quote lines - always muddling drama with reality.
- Gunilla: [inner voice] Oh, no, I know know exactly what reality is: having the dullest husband in the world.
- Thommy: Come under the covers and I'll show you what I've got saved up for you.
- Hugo: They're not so bad, the girls. Though I prefer them at a distance. A man has a right to a life of his own. It's different for women.
- [last lines]
- Carl: Liz, I can't stand for this. This means war!
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