Women in Love (1969)

Eleanor Bron: Hermione Roddice

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• Rupert Birkin : I'm sorry if I spoiled your dance. It was an act of pure spontaneity.

  Hermione Roddice : My ass!

  Rupert Birkin : You can't bear anything to be spontaneous, can you? Cause then its no longer in your power. You must clutch things and have them in your power. And why? Because you haven't got any real body, any dark, sensual body of life! All you've got is your will and your lust for power!

• Hermione Roddice : Dreadful. All this strife and dissension. If we could only realise that... in the spirit, we are all one, all equal in the spirit. All brothers there. The rest wouldn't matter. There'd be no more of this carping, envy... all this struggle for power, which destroys... only destroys.

  Rupert Birkin : It's just the opposite, Hermione, just the contrary. The minute you begin to compare, one man becomes far better than another. All the inequality in the world that you can imagine is there by nature. I want every man to have his fair share of the world's goods... so I can be rid of his importunity, so that I can say to him: 'Now you've got what you want, your fair share of the world's gear. Now, you mind yourself, and don't obstruct me.'

• Hermione Roddice : Perhaps it's better to die than to live mechanically... a life that's repetition of repetition.

• Hermione Roddice : How can you not think me sensual?

  Rupert Birkin : All you want is pornography! Looking at yourself in mirrors. Watching your naked animal actions in mirrors.

• Hermione Roddice : Immortality of the soul? More appropriate for an execution, I should have thought, than for a wedding.

• Hermione Roddice : What are you doing?

  Rupert Birkin : Catkins.

  Hermione Roddice : Really? What do you learn about them?

  Rupert Birkin : Well from these little red bits, the nuts come - if they receive pollen from these long danglers.

  Hermione Roddice : Little red flames. Little red flames, are the beautiful! I think they're so beautiful.

  Rupert Birkin : Did you never notice them before?

  Hermione Roddice : No. Never before.

  Rupert Birkin : Well, now you'll always see them.

  Hermione Roddice : Now I shall always see them. Thank you, so much, for showing me. I think they're so beautiful. Little red flames.