Operation Petticoat (1959)

Virginia Gregg: Maj. Edna Heywood RN

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Quotes 

• Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : [speaking to Maj.Heywood in the engine room]  You know, I spent alot of years disliking women. But I don't dislike you.

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Oh?

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : You're not a woman. You're more than a woman. You're a *mechanic*

• Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [noticing Tostin trying to repair a piece of machinery]  Sailor.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Si!

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : You'll never get it to work that way.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : [annoyed]  Why don't you go and... roll some bandages. What do you know about machinery?

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : I was raised with it. My father was Chief Engineer at the Seattle power plant.

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [watching him tinker with the equipment]  That would work if you'd install a new valve spring.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : [sarcastically mimicking her]  "My father was a Chief Engineer..."

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Hey look, lady. In the first place I'm trying to make do with something that don't even belong on a submarine. And in the second place, you can't install a new valve spring if you ain't got it. Now, will you get out of here?

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : You're talking to an officer.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Maybe Congress made you an officer, but God made you a woman, and... a woman just shouldn't mess around with a man's machinery. Now, for the last time, get out, will ya'?

• Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Sailor...

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Yes, ma'am.

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [indicating her laundry she's hung up to dry in the engine room]  Tell me when these are dry.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Hey, look, I'm a Machinist Mate, I ain't a... laundry sailor.

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Sailor...

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Yes, ma'am.

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : Please try not to knock anything down. I wouldn't want it to land on this dirty floor.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : What's dirty?

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : The whole engine room.

  Maj. Edna Heywood, RN : [Wipes her hand on the deck, shows it to him]  Look at that grease.

  Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin : Hey, if you was bombed and sunk and pulled up by *your* stern, you'd be a little greasy too.