“I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.”
Source: Lily of the Nile
“What’s SQ?” asked Evan.
“Sexual Quotient.”
“What’s that?”
“Basically, it’s your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ.”
“I’ve never heard that term before.”
“That’s because I made it up.”
“That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh?”
Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public.”
Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each group member (much the way that colleges recruit individuals with higher test scores to increase the average test scores of their matriculated students).”
Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends – an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together.”
Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
“I was trying to get over you! And it didn’t work. I was meant to walk on this earth with only you, I was meant to give only you every piece of me. I don’t want anyone but you. I love you.”
Source: Taking Shots
“Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.”
Source: The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
“It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.”
“[Robert] Jensen calls for an end to our current understanding of masculinity. He says, "We men can settle for being men, or we can strive to be human beings." What's funny is that that statement essentially echoes the same hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves, and encourage men to see us, as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with independent desires, hopes and abilities.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.”
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children