Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

Mel Ferrer: Rudy De Meyer

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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!

• Helen Gurley Brown : Rudy, what are you doing?

  Rudy : We call it play therapy.

• Helen Gurley Brown : Why did you become a psychiatrist?

  Rudy : Because I like to hear dirty stories.

• Rudy : [Helen lightly slaps Bob]  Hot dog, what a sexy slap! What are you trying to do discourage him or satisfy yourself?

  Helen Gurley Brown : I won't be dominated by any man!

  Gretchen : [to Rudy]  I'd gladly be dominated by *any* man!

  Bob Weston : [to Helen]  Is that what you think I'm trying to do? Dominate you? Well, I never dug a chick like you anyway! Thanks for turning me down!