MICHAEL: They didn’t make that much impression on me…Monkeys are monkeys…
JULIA: I wanted to take them in my arms. Right then, in the zoo, I knew how much I wanted to be a mother. To hug my babies. There is nothing so joyful as to think of a happy, sweet smelling, and warm baby. You felt nothing watching the baby monkeys?
MICHAEL: No… Nothing.
JULIA: Michael, how long do I have to wait? We have been together long enough.
MICHAEL: Not enough!
JULIA (exasperated): Two years is not long enough? Let’s stop and look at our relationship. You first of all love sex…
MICHAEL: Love without sex doesn’t exist. We really show love through sex.
JULIA: You think you’re a good lover?
MICHAEL: Sex is my specialty… Yes, I think most of the time I’m a good lover…
JULIA: But you don’t even know my hot spots!
MICHAEL: Well…your… we never….
JULIA: You think my erotic zone is my ears? Why are you always playing with my ears?
MICHAEL (also angry): You have never objected…
JULIA: I have a lot of patience…You don’t know anything about me, and you don’t want to know!
(Pause)
MICHAEL: What more do you want? I spend a lot of thought and energy on work. I expect a better job…. Better pay… I’m working longer. I’m working my way up the ladder. It’s hard to find this little time to spend with you.
JULIA (bitterly): And I thought in the end you would ask me to be your wife!
MICHAEL: What kind of a wife would you be? You don’t like to cook. Every time you spend a weekend here I have to clean up for an hour. You don’t even rinse your glass. Every time you want a drink you take a new glass from the shelf.
(Pause)
I’ve decided that if you get pregnant, I’ll marry you…
JULIA: How could I have become pregnant with you? I had no confidence that you’d marry me! And now you say you want to live on a boat!
MICHAEL: Well maybe… I…
JULIA: Michael, my time for kids is slowly slipping away. I’m really getting stressed about it…
MICHAEL: I don’t have those problems…
JULIA: You men don’t understand mothering. All women want to get married!
MICHAEL: Not all! My girl friend before you was dead sure she didn’t want to get married.
JULIA: Why did you break up?
MICHAEL: She cheated on me… and not just me… I have to admit she was sort of like a leaf just blown where ever nature and excitement took her…
JULIA: So since I was on the TV show you thought I was like her too? Sort of a prostitute?
MICHAEL: Well… you went to bed with me quickly… I think all women are like prostitutes… “Under their skin”…
