Gerda Wegener Quotes in The Danish Girl (2015)

Gerda Wegener: I need to see Einar.

Lili Elbe: Let me help, please.

Gerda Wegener: I need my husband, can you get him?

Lili Elbe: I can't.

Gerda Wegener: I need to talk to my husband, and I need to hold my husband. Can you at least try?

Lili Elbe: I'm sorry.

[last lines]

Gerda Wegener: [to Hans as her scarf is carried away on the wind] No, leave it. Let it fly.

Gerda Wegener: We went for coffee, and after... I kissed him. And it was the strangest thing. It was like kissing myself.

Lili Elbe: How have I ever deserved such love? There's nothing to be afraid of anymore.

Gerda Wegener: No.

Lili Elbe: Last night I had the most beautiful dream. I dreamed that I was a baby in my mother's arms. And she looked down at me, and she called me Lili.

Gerda Wegener: It's hard for a man to be looked at by a woman. Women are used to it, of course, but for a man to submit to a woman's gaze - it's unsettling. Although I believe there's some pleasure to be had from it, once you yield.

Einar Wegener: There was a moment when I was just Lili, and I think that he could see that. Do you see?

Gerda Wegener: But Lili doesn't exist. We made her up.

Gerda Wegener: For a man to, um, submit to a woman's gaze is, er, unsettling... Although I believe there is some pleasure to be had by it - once you, ah, yield.