The Snake Woman (1961)

Dorothy Frere: Martha Adderson

Quotes 

• Martha Adderson : [Martha is in bed. The doctor approaches with a loaded hypodermic needle]  No!

  Dr. Horace Adderson : Now, Martha, there's no sense in your carrying on like this and it's no use screaming. Now, let's get this over so I can return to my work.

  Martha Adderson : No, I won't let you.

  Dr. Horace Adderson : But Martha, you're not making sense. You've administered this dozens of times without all this nonsense.

  Martha Adderson : All that snake poison in my blood, for months, for years. You don't know, nobody knows what it will do.

  Dr. Horace Adderson : Of course I know what it will do. I know what it's done. It gave you back your mind when they all said you were hopelessly insane.

  Martha Adderson : I know that but...... .

  Dr. Horace Adderson : Other investigators have employed snake venom in the treatment of hemophilia, epilepsy, rheumatism, hypertension, even cancer. But it is Horace Adderson - your husband - who is the only herpetologist to have cured a sick mind with snake venom.

  Martha Adderson : But what about the baby?

  Dr. Horace Adderson : The baby?

  Martha Adderson : That snake poison flowing through my blood, what will it do to my unborn child?

  Dr. Horace Adderson : So that's it!

  Martha Adderson : Under your microscope, doesn't all new life look the same? Plant, fish, human even serpent!

  Dr. Horace Adderson : That's true but...

  Martha Adderson : Life is such a miraculous, delicate thing, what if this poison were to upset the balance and instead of a normal, healthy child, ours were to be born a...?

  Dr. Horace Adderson : That's ridiculous! Don't you see that it just shows that your mind is slipping away again? Now Martha, just relax... .