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"Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed."

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

"The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm."

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
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"As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date."

"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

"The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again."

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."

"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."

"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive."
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