Exercise instructress Quotes in The Women (1939)

Exercise instructress: Arms flat. Crawl slowly up the wall...

Sylvia Fowler: The way you say that makes me feel like vermin.

Exercise instructress: That shouldn't be much effort. I mean, crawling up the wall.

Sylvia Fowler: Mrs. Haines never listens to any of her friends...

Exercise instructress: [under her breath] How does she avoid it?

Exercise instructress: Mrs. Fowler you've hardly moved a muscle.

Sylvia Fowler: Whose carcass is this, yours or mine?

Exercise instructress: It's yours, but I'm paid to exercise it.

Sylvia Fowler: You sound like a horse trainer.

Exercise instructress: No, Mrs. Fowler, but you're getting warm.

Exercise instructress: [instructing Mrs. Fowler in her exercises] Up, over. Up, down. Up, stretch! Up, together.

Sylvia Fowler: No more up. This has got me down.

Exercise instructress: Rest a moment and relax your diaphragm muscles.

[under her breath]

Exercise instructress: If you can.

Exercise instructress: Let's begin with posture. A lady always enters a room erect.

Sylvia Fowler: Most of my friends exit horizontally.

Sylvia Fowler: The way you say that makes me feel like vermin.

Exercise instructress: That's shouldn't be much effort. I mean crawling up the wall.