- Helen Gurley Brown: Take me to Fiji!
- Rudy: Fiji?
- Helen Gurley Brown: Yes, Fiji! Where the women are women and the men are worms!
- Rudy: Well, if you're really serious, I'll wiggle along.
- Motorcycle Cop: I want to see everybody's license! I want to see your driver's license, pilot license, transport license, hangar license, building license and see your license license. And everybody everywhere is under arrest!
- Sylvia Broderick: [to Frank] Are you asking me to go back to the same lousy life I had ten years ago before I had this lousy life?
- The Chief: Stand up Bob and let me thank you from the heart for living down to my expectations. If there is a dirtier mind than yours in the whole field of magazine publishing or a nature more vulgar and corrupt, well, I'd like to know where it is.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Does your husband Frank come home to you every night?
- Susan: [pretending to be Mrs. Broderick] Well... I don't know.
- Helen Gurley Brown: You don't?
- Susan: No, because, you see, I don't go home every night.
- Bob Weston: Gretchen, let me ask you something. If you were as pure as the driven snow...
- Gretchen: Honey, I can't remember that far back.
- Frank Luther Broderick: Girls, look! It's my wife. She used to work here. She married the boss. See? If you're nice to me, maybe you can marry me.
- Helen Gurley Brown: I didn't ask them to write this, you know! Did you read what they called me?
- Dr. A.L. Chickering: [reading from STOP magazine] "She should be ashamed and millions of women should be ashamed for bringing their intimate problems to someone with all the knowledge and personal experience of a 23 year old - "
- Helen Gurley Brown: Stop! Don't you say it. The nerve of them. The gall! To call me - Dr. Helen Gurley Brown - a 23 year old - virgin!
- Rudy: Traditionally, Helen, the term is considered a compliment.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Well, not by me!
- Bob Weston: I'd like to be able to get to that broad. I need a plan! Something that's vicious, low, filthy and dirty!
- Susan: Well, you'll think of something, Angel.
- Gretchen: Wait till you hear this!
- [singing]
- Gretchen: Mention sex, And the single girl is cool and shy, She objects, To discussing sex with any guy, You can bet, She's as interested as he, If sex was 50/50, Where would everybody be? Mention sex, And the single girl will blush a lot, Though she wrecks, Every single guy with what she's got, Then a guy she can't ignore, Tells her what she's waited for, And suddenly she's not single any more.
- Sylvia Broderick: I began calling you this afternoon!
- Frank Luther Broderick: I was with my manager! I'm coming out with a new line.
- Sylvia Broderick: Well it's about time! I'm getting sick of listening to your old one.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Oh, no, no, no. Don't be frightened. Are you really so bashful with her?
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] I'm even bashful with you.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Well, there's no need to be. See, we're holding hands and nothing is happening.
- Bob Weston: Something is happening.
- Helen Gurley Brown: You're gaining confidence and that's what's happening.
- Bob Weston: I'm gaining confidence and that's what's happening.
- Sylvia Broderick: Tell me kid, why are you doing all this?
- Helen Gurley Brown: Why? Because I want to help Frank and I want to help you and - because my mother told me to.
- Gretchen: I'm sorry Bob, but, when fame knocks you should answer.
- Bob Weston: Eh, that's opportunity.
- Gretchen: Well, whatever it is, I'm answering.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Mrs. Broderick, your husband - is a very sick man.
- Sylvia Broderick: Yeah, he's about to pass away.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Mrs. Broderick, no! He must be handled with kid gloves.
- Sylvia Broderick: Oh, good idea! No fingerprints.
- Helen Gurley Brown: [holding a photo of Frank Broderick] Mrs. Broderick, this is not the man you're married too!
- Sylvia Broderick: Well, he's the man who's been coming here to sleep for the last 10 years.
- Helen Gurley Brown: But, this is not the man who's been coming to my office! This man is ugly!
- Sylvia Broderick: Now, just a minute, Doctor! Do not talk that way about my Frank!
- Helen Gurley Brown: The "Frank Broderick" who's been coming to my office is young and handsome and charming! He looks like Jack Lemmon!
- Sylvia Broderick: Oh, well that's Bob Weston.
- The Chief: This magazine - "Stop" - was started, not by my father, not by my grandfather, but by my great-grandmother.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Rudy, stop! It's that magazine article! Before it was published, you never even thought of me as a girl.
- Rudy: That's right. I didn't. Merely as a colleague.
- Helen Gurley Brown: And now, all you want to do is bite me!
- Rudy: That's right, I do!
- Helen Gurley Brown: When I do get married, its not going to be for love or sex or romance. I can get all of those things outside of marriage - just as easily as you can.
- Rudy: Me? I'm having a terrible time!
- Helen Gurley Brown: And I shall insist on the right to have as many love affairs as I please. I'm certainly not going to sacrifice one iota of my freedom or dignity for any man.
- Dr. Anderson: [reading from STOP magazine] "A contemptible, lamentable hoax! Filling frustrated feminine minds with dirty delusions of grandeur." I don't like this. I don't like it at all!
- Helen Gurley Brown: Dr. Anderson, I hope you don't think that I'm happy about it! This filthy rag is using sex and me - for no better purpose than to make money!
- The Chief: Mr. Holmes, I've just read the advance copy of your new article on space travel, "Sex in a Capsule." I don't believe I'm over praising you one bit when I say that it brings the whole difficult field of science reporting to a new low.
- Bob Weston: I've got an idea for a follow-up on that kid, that Dr. Helen Brown, that'll blast every other magazine right off the news stands! It's a personal exposé right from her own lips! Does she or doesn't she? Either way it's a crummy story.
- Helen Gurley Brown: We're getting more grants and cooperation than we we ever got before. And all because I wrote that bestseller.
- Rudy: But, it has no technical value and it will be of no help to anyone in my field or yours.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Well, I didn't write the book to help us! I wrote it to help the unmarried women in this country to stop being ashamed of sex or being single. I want them to stop behaving like mice and start behaving like men!
- Bob Weston: You call me darling again and I'm going to send you to Readers Digest.
- Susan: Dr. Helen Brown says that being properly aggressive a girl can land any man she wants to!
- Bob Weston: Well, you're not a girl. You're a secretary!
- Bob Weston: [talking about Dr. Brown] I'll bet you this kid has been giving flying lessons and she's never been off the ground!
- Bob Weston: Gretchen, you read this book, "Sex and the Single Girl," right? Tell me, what do you think of this Helen Gurley Brown. Is she really on the level?
- Gretchen: I don't know, honey. I don't think I've ever lived like a single girl.
- Frank Luther Broderick: Sure, I'd see anybody, I'd do anything to save my marriage! But, I just can't take the time.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Mr. Broderick, when did all this jealousy start?
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] On our honeymoon. Even before our honeymoon, I guess. She knows I used to play around a lot before we were married.
- Helen Gurley Brown: How does she know?
- Bob Weston: She was the one I used to play around a lot with.
- Helen Gurley Brown: You're a very good looking man, Mr. Broderick.
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] You're a very beautiful girl, Dr. Brown.
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] She'd hit the ceiling if she thought you and me were sitting here alone. You know what she'd figure? She'd figure a broad as pretty as you has *got* to be on the make.
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] Please, Doctor, don't misunderstand me. When I talk about you or any other girl, it's only as a customer. You see, I make ladies stockings and that's all I care about - is business. When I look at a woman's legs - may I see your legs, please? See, when I look at a woman's legs, I mean, beautiful.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Thank you.
- Bob Weston: But, when I look at a woman's legs, I look at them because I have to, not because I particularly want to, you know. I mean, what good is a casing without the sausage inside?
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] When I get anxious, I get scared. Because I'm scared, I get inadequate. And, because I'm inadequate, she thinks - she thinks I'm with other women. She - doesn't think that I'm inadequate. She just thinks I'm tired.
- Gretchen: Anniversaries like these always leave me with a strange kind of longing.
- Bob Weston: For marriage.
- Gretchen: Oh, no, honey! I wouldn't give up my career for marriage, kids or happiness.
- Bob Weston: Good girl, good girl!
- Helen Gurley Brown: Are you attracted to me?
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] Oh, yes, Dr. Brown. I am, I am, I am.
- George: You wouldn't let the truth stand in the way of a good story, would you?
- Bob Weston: George, you don't have to tell me anything about ethics.
- Bob Weston: That way she'll be with you all day long and she'll be able to see for herself that you're not fooling around with - any other - chicks.
- Helen Gurley Brown: I'm simply appalled at the double standard you men keep trying to impose on us women. Well, I for one, I'm simply not going to submit.
- Helen Gurley Brown: I hope you don't feel odd or anything because you're wearing a woman's robe.
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] Oh, no! Not at all! In fact, I was thinking I look just like - eh - Jack Lemmon did in that movie where he dressed up like a girl. Remember?
- Bob Weston: [pretending to be Frank Broderick] Sylvia never says nice things to me. Maybe that's why I don't have the confidence.
- Helen Gurley Brown: Well, I'm gonna give you the confidence.
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