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Thirteen Women Quotes

Thirteen Women is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Thirteen Women ended in 1970.

It features David O. Selznick as producer, Max Steiner in charge of musical score, and Leo Tover as head of cinematography.

Thirteen Women is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Thirteen Women is 73 mins. (original release) long. Thirteen Women is distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

The cast includes: C. Henry Gordon as Swami Yogadachi, Myrna Loy as Ursula Georgi, Irene Dunne as Laura Stanhope, Florence Eldridge as Grace Coombs, Kay Johnson as Helen Dawson Frye, Jill Esmond as Jo Turner, Wally Albright as Bobby Stanhope, Lloyd Ingraham as Inspector, and Ricardo Cortez as Police Sergeant Barry Clive.

Thirteen Women Quotes

Kay Johnson as Helen Dawson Frye

  • (Kay Johnson) "Well, that makes it practically unanimous."

Myrna Loy as Ursula Georgi

  • (Myrna Loy) "Give this to Master Bobby with all your love. And don't drop it."
  • (Chauffeur Burns) "I -- I can't. I can't bear the thought of it, I -- I can't do it."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Of course you will."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Darling. You and I are going away together, aren't we? As soon as everything is done. You'll do it, won't you?"
  • (Chauffeur Burns) "What -- what will it do to him?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "He won't know anything. He'll bounce it. Children always bounce rubber balls, don't they? And then --"
  • (Chauffeur Burns) "Why --"
  • (Myrna Loy) "Shh."
  • (Myrna Loy) "How is your child, Laura? They tell me he's handsome, and bright, and very lovable. Yes, Burns told me. And tomorrow's his birthday. I looked at his star tonight and it was glowing red, like the ball I sent him."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Why should you want to kill Bobby?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "He's your child, isn't he? Yours."
  • (Irene Dunne) "What have I done, what has anyone done, to make you so inhuman?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "Do I hear the very human white race asking that question? When I was twelve years old, white sailors --"
  • (Irene Dunne) "You're insane, you're insane."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Maybe I am. But do you know what it means to be a half breed, a half caste, in a world ruled by whites? If you're a male, you're a coolie, and if you're a female, you're, well -- The white half of me cried for the courtesy and protection that women like you get. The only way I could free myself was by becoming white. And it was almost in my hands, when you, you and your Kappa Society, stopped me."
  • (Irene Dunne) "You're crazy --"
  • (Myrna Loy) "I spent six years slaving to get money enough to put me through finishing school, to make the world accept me as white. But you and the others wouldn't let me cross the color line."
  • (Irene Dunne) "But we were young. Maybe we were cruel. But you can't use that to justify murder."
  • (Myrna Loy) "I can."
  • (Myrna Loy) "How is your child, Laura? They tell me he's handsome, and bright, and very lovable. Yes, Burns told me. And tomorrow's his birthday. I looked at his star tonight and it was glowing red, like the ball I sent him."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Why should you want to kill Bobby?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "He's your child, isn't he? Yours."
  • (Irene Dunne) "What have I done, what has anyone done to make you so inhuman?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "Do I hear the very human white race asking that question? When I was twelve years old, white sailors --"
  • (Irene Dunne) "You're insane, you're insane."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Maybe I am. But do you know what it means to be a half breed, a half caste, in a world ruled by whites? If you're a male, you're a coolie, and if you're a female, you're, well -- The white half of me cried for the courtesy and protection that women like you get. The only way I could free myself was by becoming white. And it was almost in my hands, when you, you and your Kappa Society stopped me."
  • (Irene Dunne) "You're crazy --"
  • (Myrna Loy) "I spent six years slaving to get money enough to put me through finishing school, to make the world accept me as white. But you and the others wouldn't let me cross the color line."
  • (Irene Dunne) "But we were young. Maybe we were cruel. But you can't use that to justify murder."
  • (Myrna Loy) "I can."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Good evening, Laura."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Ursula Georgi."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Does the exclusive Mrs. Stanhope further honor me by remembering my name?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "How I used to envy you girls. Your parties, your sorority."
  • (Kay Johnson) "You're lucky you don't belong, if you ask me."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Because of those timetables laid out by the stars you were talking about? You straight-thinking, oh so rational Anglo-Saxons don't believe in such things, do you?"
  • (Kay Johnson) "Laura doesn't, thank goodness."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Mrs. Stanhope always was a strong character, wasn't she?"
  • (Kay Johnson) "Yes. That's why she's getting us all together. To laugh it all away. I haven't laughed in so long. My little girl had the bluest eyes. She was just two and a half years old -- It's what happened to Yogadachi himself that makes it all so convincing. He predicted even the date he'd go. You can't laugh that off, can you."
  • (Myrna Loy) "No."
  • (Kay Johnson) "I want you to read his last letter."
  • (Kay Johnson) "Isn't that silly? A man I've never seen. He has the nerve to tell me that I'm going to kill myself."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Why the gun, then? Aren't you afraid?"
  • (Kay Johnson) "Afraid? Why, of course not. It belongs to my husband. I brought it along with me just to prove to myself that that swami is bogus. If- if I avoided the thing now, I would know that I was afraid. Oh, are you going to bed?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "Yes, it's so late. We'll be in Los Angeles in the morning. I'll see you at breakfast."
  • (Kay Johnson) "Fine."
  • (Myrna Loy) "But if I were you, I'd --"
  • (Kay Johnson) "This? Don't worry, no stars are going to twinkle twinkle me into committing suicide."

Ricardo Cortez as Police Sergeant Barry Clive

  • (Ricardo Cortez) "We want this woman. Her name's Ursula Georgi. Half-breed type. Half Hindu, half Javanese, I don't know. She's living right here in this town. I want you to find her. Check every move she makes."
  • (Mike - the Detective) "There are one million, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand, and forty-eight people in Los Angeles, and you want only one woman? Cinch."
  • (Ricardo Cortez) "We want this woman. Her name's Ursula Georgi. Half-breed type. Half Hindu, half Javanese, I don't know. She's living right here in this town. I want you to find her. Check every move she makes."
  • (Mike - the Detective) "There are one million, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand and forty-eight people in Los Angeles, and you want only one woman? Cinch."

Jill Esmond as Jo Turner

  • (Jill Esmond) "Oh, you let an old lady beat you."
  • (Wally Albright) "You did not beat me, I let you win 'cause you're a girl."
  • (Jill Esmond) "I do envy you, Laura. To me, life is just an ashtray full of cigarette butts."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Why don't you marry again, Jo?"
  • (Jill Esmond) "Oh, I would if I were sure of getting a kid like Bobby."
  • (Irene Dunne) "What about the present fiancé?"
  • (Jill Esmond) "Oh, he's a lot of fun. But all he wants is a well-stocked cellar, a racehorse, bridge -- anything but babies. Laura, why don't you marry again sometime?"
  • (Irene Dunne) "No. I could never be dependent on anyone again. I love standing on my own feet."
  • (Jill Esmond) "I wonder if any woman can."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Why not?"
  • (Jill Esmond) "I say, do you remember how you were always afraid the boys would go too far, and I was afraid that they wouldn't?"
  • (Jill Esmond) "Darling, I'm sorry to make a liar out of your infallible swami, but I haven't killed myself over a man yet."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Jo."
  • (Jill Esmond) "He should have known that it's the men that kill themselves over me."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Sit down, Grace, dear, sit down."
  • (Florence Eldridge) "Oh, Jo, please don't be so flippant. What is written in the stars must come to pass."
  • (Jill Esmond) "Okay with me. I've had a lot of fun."
  • (Irene Dunne) "You're both fatalists."
  • (Jill Esmond) "Mm, sure. When the gods are fed up with me, pfft, voila."

Irene Dunne as Laura Stanhope

  • (Irene Dunne) "You've done a lot for me, Jo."
  • (Jill Esmond) "We've helped each other, rather. But with Sergeant Clive around, you won't need me."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Just the same, I hate to see you go."
  • (Jill Esmond) "And I hate going, too, only I don't dare stay."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Why?"
  • (Jill Esmond) "Oh, well, I've followed my fiancé, and -- I'd believe anything of myself when I'm in love."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Look here, Jo, you surely don't believe your prediction."
  • (Jill Esmond) "I'm human too. Do you know, the only credulous animal on the whole face of the earth is the human."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Oh, another one of those messages?"
  • (Florence Eldridge) "Yes."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Grace, if you don't stop selling your soul to the devil by believing in those foolish horoscopes --"
  • (Florence Eldridge) "What about May? And Hazel is in jail."
  • (Irene Dunne) "It's pitiful, yes -- but the result of natural causes. And belief in anything else is believing in magic."
  • (Florence Eldridge) "But Laura --"
  • (Irene Dunne) "And you could help the rest of us, Grace, if you'd hush, and stop writing your letters telling us all to prepare for our --"
  • (Florence Eldridge) "But the moon does control the tides, and nothing can live without the sun. Why shouldn't we be controlled?"
  • (Irene Dunne) "Because we're reasoning human beings, silly, and not irresponsible machines."
  • (Florence Eldridge) "Listen, Laura. This letter came from the swami just an hour ago. I have to tell you. Listen: "I would do anything to prevent the disasters that have come down upon you and your friends, as I would do anything to save my own life, but I can do neither, for I am helpless too. I knew too much about the heavens. They're killing me. My own horoscope shows that I am to leave this earth before July first.""
  • (Irene Dunne) "Well, if I needed anything more than common sense to disprove your argument, that would be enough. No one is going to take his own life just to prove to twelve women that he's a good stargazer. You're deranged, Grace."
  • (Florence Eldridge) "If this happens, if the swami himself does die, how can we disbelieve?"

Florence Eldridge as Grace Coombs

  • (Florence Eldridge) "Do you still doubt, Laura? Are you still laughing, Jo? Yogadachi's been right again. Oh, you must accept his truth as I have."
  • (Irene Dunne) "That's the trouble with you, Grace, glorifying such rot."
  • (Florence Eldridge) "Rot? I tell you that nothing could save Helen, nor May, nor Hazel, from fate. Don't you understand? It was written for them -- as it is for all of us."
  • (Jill Esmond) "Well if it's all settled for us, why worry?"
  • (Irene Dunne) "Stop talking about it, stop thinking about it. Anyone can think themselves into anything."
  • (Jill Esmond) "You two are stumbling in a dark, material world. I am above it, as Yogadachi was. Death means peace, freedom. I shall meet him, gladly."
  • (Jill Esmond) "Well, I shan't. Depression or not, personally I'm mad about this world. Oh, go on home, Grace. You give me the creeps."
  • (Jill Esmond) "No, no, not I, but what's written for you, only you're afraid to face it."
  • (Irene Dunne) "Grace, I think you'd better go."
  • (Jill Esmond) "Just as you say."

C. Henry Gordon as Swami Yogadachi

  • (C. Henry Gordon) "I've worked this horoscope out five times. It predicts great happiness, but still I'm afraid to send it."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Why, Swami?"
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "Because I was fatally wrong about June Raskob. Her future was as happy as this one. A week after I wrote her, her sister was dead and she was insane."
  • (Myrna Loy) "You must send it."
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "Have I -- have I lost the power to divine the stars?"
  • (Myrna Loy) "No, Swami. But you must send the letter. For the sake of those twelve women who wrote the round robin, asking for their horoscopes. They were schoolgirls together. Their lives form one chain of destiny. Twelve women who believe. Don't destroy their faith in the occult, Swami."
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "What is in that brain of yours? Your eyes -- We've met before, of that I'm certain."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Not on this earth. Were we lovers in another incarnation, Swami? Tell me."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Couldn't you learn by casting my horoscope?"
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "I have cast it. To see if the heavens could explain your- your effect on me."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Yes?"
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "Please don't make me tell you."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Tell me."
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "It is death I read for you."
  • (Myrna Loy) "Aren't we all to die?"
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "But you, not pleasantly. Oh, the thought is too horrible. Your body, mangled like that."
  • (Myrna Loy) "How?"
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "An accident, the stars say. A railroad, perhaps."
  • (Myrna Loy) "How strange. So are you to die like that."
  • (C. Henry Gordon) "Don't look at me that way. Don't look at me like that."
  • (Myrna Loy) "You're very tired, Swami. Sleep is so sweet."

Lloyd Ingraham as Inspector

  • (Lloyd Ingraham) "Suicide's bad enough, but I'm relieved it wasn't --"
  • (Ricardo Cortez) "Murder? No. On the other hand, something makes one kill oneself, so suicide is murder. Trouble is, you can't arrest a something, can you?"

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