Woman Times Seven (1967)

Shirley MacLaine: Paulette, Maria Teresa, Linda, Edith, Eve Minou, Marie, Jeanne

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• Linda : Where would I ever find another man like Bob? A man who could discuss Sartre, the greats of literature, sculpture, painting, read poetry aloud, calmly and serenely, while I'm nude?

  MacCormack (segment "Two Against One") : Nude?

  Linda : Nude.

• Linda : I wish this night would never end. It's wonderful. Once again, my bed has become the Arcade in Athens - a sacred place of thought.

• Jeanne : How beautiful! Snow excites me so.

• Maria Teresa : Oh! Oh! Georgio! Nanette? Oh, Georg! Nanette! Oh! In my own house. In my own room. And in my own bed! Oh, Georgio!

• Jeannine (segment "Amateur Night") : Is your husband light or dark?

  Maria Teresa : He's dark.

  Jeannine (segment "Amateur Night") : Okay, then we'd better get you a blond. Hey, the baby doctor.

  Prostitute II : No, no, that one smacks you around while he's at it.

  Prostitute III : And he never pays up, either.

  Jeannine (segment "Amateur Night") : But she's just out for revenge. She could go for free.

  Prostitute III : Oh, no, you don't! That would wreck the market! Make them pay, and through the nose!

• Bitter Thirty (segment "Amateur Night") : Don't forget your husband. When you saw him all wrapped up in your bed, kissing your friend.

  Maria Teresa : She's not my friend! She's a cheap whore!

  Bitter Thirty (segment "Amateur Night") : Good! Keep it up! Even if you insult the business.

• Maria Teresa : He's naked! He's driving that car absolutely bone naked! Not a stitch on!

• Linda : A bed! That's what you were thinking of, wasn't it? A bed?

  MacCormack (segment "Two Against One") : Oh, no, no, no. I was thinking of a chest of drawers.

• Linda : [seating on the floor, nude, reading aloud, T.S. Elliot]  "Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels, And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument, Of insidious intent, To lead you to an overwhelming question." What a beautiful atmosphere we've created here.

  Cenci (segment "Two Against One") : Perfect!

  Linda : Tired?

  Cenci (segment "Two Against One") : As far as I'm concerned, you can go on till dawn.

  MacCormack (segment "Two Against One") : This - *victory* of the spirit over the flesh!

  Linda : Yes. Yes! Well put. Very, very well put.

  Cenci (segment "Two Against One") : *I* feel like a hermit, high in a tower above the world, beyond sex.

  Linda : That's it. That's it. Oh! That's it! That's it. That's it. Yes, that's it. That's it! That's it! La-la-la-la. It - It - It. Oh, that's it. That's it! La-la-la. That's it. Oh, we're angels!

• Linda : What would you two be willing to do for me?

  MacCormack (segment "Two Against One") : I'll marry you. Aye, I'll get a divorce and marry you.

  Cenci (segment "Two Against One") : Big deal. In your country, you can't get a divorce. If Linda asks me to throw myself out the window - I'll do it.

  Linda : Beautiful. Perfect.

  MacCormack (segment "Two Against One") : Perfect!

  Linda : Jump.

  Cenci (segment "Two Against One") : Morally, I'm already down there, smeared out on the asphalt - like a bat.

• Linda : All right, which one did it? Which one touched me?

  Cenci (segment "Two Against One") : I'm as still as a statue! Ants could even crawl on me!

  MacCormack (segment "Two Against One") : Well, I was fallin' asleep!

  Linda : It's a disgrace! You ought to be ashamed! You have sent a dream up in smoke - destroyed a spiritual relationship. A friendship, reverting to the age of the caveman. Look at you! Look at you - insensitive mummies! And we wonder why there are still wars? - - And in front of two creatures, the likes of you, I don't even have the courage to show myself as God made me. The hypocrisy returns to suffocate us.

• Pretty woman (segment "Super Simone") : Edith! I read your husband's story this week. It's fantastic! He's absolutely genius.

  Edith : Thank you.

  Pretty woman (segment "Super Simone") : Where does he find all these extraordinary women? They are so crazy, so unexpected. You know, my husband, last month, he went wild over that cute little nympho.

• Dr. Xavier (segment "Super Simone") : So, did our little girl hurt herself?

  Edith : No, it's nothing, really. It's nothing. Actually, a good bruise would look nice on me.

• Edith : I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy. I'm just in love!

• Eve : You better do something! You just better do something! That is, of course, unless you're a frightened, yellow chicken. And don't you forget: I don't go to bed with frightened, yellow, clucking chickens!

• Eve : Do Bibo the Bear, dear. Bibo the Bear.

• Jeanne : I saw him peeking at you. I'm sure he's after you.

  Claudie (segment "Snow") : Or both of us, if he's modern.