Hans Axgil: [to Lili] I've only liked a handful of people in my life, and you've been two of them.
Einar Wegener: I love you, because you are the only person who made sense of me. And made me, possible.
Hans Axgil: How are you Lili ?
Einar Wegener: Entirely myself.
Einar Wegener: I think Lili's thoughts, I dream her dreams. She was always there.
[last lines]
Gerda Wegener: [to Hans as her scarf is carried away on the wind] No, leave it. Let it fly.
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: We went for coffee, and after... I kissed him. And it was the strangest thing. It was like kissing myself.
Hans Axgil: We were fooling around in the kitchen. Einar was wearing his grandmother's apron. We were just little boys, you know, playing around? Anyway, Einar just looked so pretty and... I had to kiss him! So, yes, I kissed Einar.
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.
Dr. Hexler: Tell me about Lili... Where did she come from?
Einar Wegener: Inside of me.
Lili Elbe: This is not my body, Professor. Please take it away.
Lili Elbe: So, what you're suggesting is that, uh, a doctor intervened. To correct a mistake in nature.
Henrik: He made you a woman.
Lili Elbe: No, God made me a woman. But the doctor... He... The doctor is curing me of the sickness that was my disguise.
Warnekros: Mrs. Wegener, I do believe I can help your husband. But he won't be your husband when I've finished.
Lili Elbe: I think that marriage is the single thing we should all hope for in life.
Hans Axgil: Really?
Lili Elbe: It creates someone else. More than just the two of you. Yes, I think it'd be terrible not to...
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.
Einar Wegener: Gerda, this can't be right.
Dr. Hexler: Radiation is a miracle, Mr. Wegener. It destroys the bad and saves the good.
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.
[first lines]
American Woman: Don't you wish you could paint like that? Oh, I'm sorry? I said, don't you wish you could paint like your husband? Really. You must be so proud of him. So elegant.
