The Mother and the Whore (1973)

Françoise Lebrun: Veronika, Alexandre's live-in girlfriend

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Quotes 

• Veronika : Why shouldn't women be able to say they want to fuck?

• Veronika : [after seeing Alexandre making the bed by jumping with the sheets on top of it]  Funny way to make a bed.

  Alexandre : I saw it done in a film. Films teach you how to live, how to make a bed.

• Veronika : [subtitled version]  I've been fucked like a whore. But you know, I think some day a man will come along and will love me, and will make me a baby, out of love. Love is nothing unless you want to make a baby together. If you want that, you feel you love each other. A couple that doesn't want a baby is no couple, it's shit, it's anything, dust...

  [sobs] 

• Veronika : I speak of dreams and you talk about my nightmares.

• Veronika : I followed you because I wanted to be with you. You know what? I'd like to fuck you again. I love you and I want to fuck you again.

• Veronika : I'm often in love. I get involved with people quickly, and forget quickly. People don't matter.

• Veronika : I'm not reproaching you... On the contrary. My sadness isn't a reproach, you know. It's an old sadness I've dragged around for five years. Nothing to do with you.

• Veronika : I just like a rose, who cuts a day without reason, you took my sad heart to go outside my house. My heart is a flower of autumn. Without knowing how or why, you grabbed it, I present it simply.

• Veronika : How can you say you're the only man I have loved you? How ridiculous!

• Veronika : I thought of you in the service. There is graffiti: My desire to love over death looms as a window. And someone has written underneath: Leap, Narciso.

• Veronika : How to deceive people! What are gullible! Only one you, there's only one me. Only you can fuck well. Only I can be fucked well for you. How funny!

• Veronika : There is only a beautiful thing: Because you love so fuck you want to create a child that you like. If not, is something sordid.