Two Women (1960)

Sophia Loren: Cesira

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Quotes 

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  Cesira : Do you know what they have done those "heroes" that you command? Do you know what your great soldiers have done in a holy church under the eyes of the Madonna? Do you know?

  American Soldier : Peace, peace.

  Cesira : Yes, peace, beautiful peace! You ruined my little daughter forever! Now she's worse than dead. No, I'm not mad, I'm not mad! Look at her! And tell me if I am mad! Rotten crazy bastards!

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  Rosetta : Mama.

  Cesira : Daughter! Daughter of gold. Forgive me. Forgive me. Enough. Rose, enough. Come here, my sweet daughter. Enough, enough. Enough, enough, enough. My little girl, my little girl, Rose! Sleep. My angel. Sleep, sleep. Sleep.

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  Cesira : The boy's a bit mad. His father spent a fortune to educate him and all he gets are insults.

  Rosetta : The things he said were true.

  Cesira : What do you know about life? If you talked to me the way he does, I would slap you in the face.

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  Giovanni : [about her deceased husband]  Did you love him?

  Cesira : But I married him.

  Giovanni : And you didn't even like him. I feel sorry for you.

  Cesira : I'd like to see you sleeping with the chickens! Eating once a day! And then a guy with money comes along and tells me, "I am taking you to Rome." I married Rome, not him!

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  Cesira : Rosetta's a saint. I'm not even worthy to be her mother.

  Michele Di Libero : No, you're something better than you think.

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  Cesira : Rose! Rose! Rosetta! Oh, my God, the horror! Rose! Analdo fetch some water. Fetch me some water!

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  Giovanni : He used to tell me everything about you.

  Cesira : And what did he tell you?

  Giovanni : Everything.

  Cesira : Tell me.

  Giovanni : Once, we were fishing, and he was telling me how you look. He was bragging.

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  Cesira : You may judge me as you like. It's obvious you don't know me.

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  Cesira : Your wife is waiting for you. Go.

  Giovanni : I couldn't care less. If the bombs kill her, I'll marry you.

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  Giovanni : Go. See you tomorrow.

  Cesira : [after Giovanni slaps her on the behind as she turns to leave, she turning back toward him]  Don't act as if you own me! I am nobody's property, got it?

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  Cesira : What are they singing?

  Il passeggero sul treno : It's always something sad.

  Cesira : Yes, they make you feel so melancholy.

  Il passeggero sul treno : Do you know who has the right to be melancholy? Us Italians.

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  Cesira : There are no sins on my conscience. Well, you might count one... the day before yesterday.

  Michele Di Libero : You see?

  Cesira : It was not a sin for which I should die. And where do the children come into it?

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  Niece : Just between us, Mussolini, as a man. I mean, what do you think of him?

  Filippo's Wife : He would scare me.

  Serafino : How can you make love with that man? I'd freeze up.

  Cesira : All you have to do is switch off the light.

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  Cesira : Does it seem right to you that a person has to stick to someone he doesn't love? It's terrible to go to bed with someone you don't like. Every night, all your life.

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  Cesira : [about the muscular topless man in the field]  He's beautiful. Is he really a Russian?

  Michele Di Libero : A deserter.

  Cesira : They never tell you that they make them like that in Russia.

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  Cesira : I am so stupid. He was right, Michele. Escape. But you can't escape from this.

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  Cesira : [to Rosetta]  You're getting a real behind on you like a woman.

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  Cesira : What is Mussolini doing?

  Giovanni : I don't even want to see him. That fanatic.

  Cesira : He has to say something.

  Giovanni : You, women - you believe all the talk.

  Cesira : Eh... before they came to bomb us, things weren't so bad.

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  Giovanni : If there is any news, I'll write.

  Cesira : Not me! I won't write. It'd take me a page to write one word.

  Giovanni : It's enough to just say hello.

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  Paride's Mama : He'll never come back.

  Cesira : Where is he?

  Paride's Mama : In Russia. Those Russian women, they only like foreign men.

  Cesira : There are no men in Russia?

  Paride's Sister : It's true. They like foreigners.

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  Cesira : Isn't there some safe place in the world?

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  Cesira : You have a girl?

  Michele Di Libero : No.

  Cesira : Come on. Didn't you ever have one?

  Michele Di Libero : No.

  Cesira : But how can you live without a woman? A normal man can't do that.

  Michele Di Libero : Today if a man can't sacrifice a little, he's of no use to himself, his family or country.

  Cesira : Right, you can do without a lot of things, but not love.

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  Cesira : You know something? It's all crazy as hell.

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  Cesira : Can't I love if I want? A widow, she can't be loved?

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  Michele Di Libero : You always say what is in your heart - right or wrong. I don't have the courage anymore.

  Cesira : You're too honest, that's trouble.

  Michele Di Libero : I am not honest with you.

  Cesira : With me?

  Michele Di Libero : Yes, with you.

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  Michele Di Libero : I love you, Cesira.

  Cesira : In such a troubled time, you think of things like that?

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  Rosetta : He loves you. Michele.

  Cesira : Go on.

  Rosetta : I can see why, you're so beautiful.

  Cesira : He's twenty-five years old. Never go with a boy younger than yourself.

  Rosetta : But he's the nicest man in Sant'Eufemia.

  Cesira : Being a nice man these days isn't much help.