The Women (1939)
Paulette Goddard: Miriam Aarons
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Quotes
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Miriam Aarons : You're passing up a swell chance, honey. Where I spit no grass grows ever.
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Nancy Blake : [to Countess DeLave] Chin up.
Miriam Aarons : Right, both of them.
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Countess DeLave : This sweet thing is getting her first divorce too! She's a very dear friend of mine... What did you say your name was again darling?
Miriam Aarons : Miriam Aarons.
Countess DeLave : [Introducing Mary and Miriam] This is Mrs. Haines. You know, yanked the scalp off that Allen woman in the fitting room?
Miriam Aarons : Oh yeah! Good for you! I was afraid you were a wet firecracker, sister. Shake!
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Miriam Aarons : [to Sylvia, about Sylvia's husband] I made him pay for what he wanted... you made him pay for what he didn't want.
Sylvia Fowler : [to Miriam] Why you...!
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Miriam Aarons : A woman's compromised the day she's born.
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Miriam Aarons : Any ladle's sweet that dishes out some gravy.
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Miriam Aarons : [about Buck Winston] Well he could crack a coconut with those knees!... If he could get them together!
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Countess DeLave : But whither... Whither shall I fly?
Miriam Aarons : To the arms our our pet cowboy, darling!
Countess DeLave : [Gasps] Miriam Aarons!
Miriam Aarons : Why, he's plum loco for you, countess! He likes you even better than his horse! And it's such a blasted big horse, too!
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Sylvia Fowler : I don't need to sit around and act glum. When I think of what I've sacrificed for Howard Fowler!
Miriam Aarons : Such as what, Mrs. Fowler?
Sylvia Fowler : [Looks at Miriam] I gave him my youth!
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Mary Haines : [Introduces them] This is the Countess DeLave... Mrs. Howard Fowler.
Countess DeLave : [Same time] How do you do?
Sylvia Fowler : [Same time] How do you do?
Mary Haines : And Miriam Aarons.
Miriam Aarons : How do you do?
Sylvia Fowler : [Looks closely at Miriam's flat chest] How do *you* do?
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Miriam Aarons : You should have licked that girl where she licked you; in his arms. It's where you win in the first round and if I know men, it's still Custer's Last Stand.
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Countess DeLave : Mary, you're not cross because my Buck's had a wee droppy too much?
Miriam Aarons : Don't be modest, Flora. Your ducky is stinko!
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Miriam Aarons : Listen, sister, when are you going to get wise to yourself?
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Countess DeLave : [to Sylvia, then to Miriam] Mrs. Aarons is connected with the stage or is it the circus, dear?
Miriam Aarons : It was the chorus.
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Miriam Aarons : [to Mary] I had my pride. Heaven knows where I got it.
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Miriam Aarons : To Reno - beautiful emblem of the great divide!