Sex and the City (TV Series)
The Power of Female Sex (1998)
Sarah Jessica Parker: Carrie Bradshaw
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Quotes
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Miranda Hobbes : [to Charlotte who is talking about a famous painter who might ask her to hold his brush] If he so much as suggests what she's suggesting, you give me a call and we'll sue the hell out of him. That's the only proper way to trade sex for power.
Samantha : I can't believe what I'm hearing. You're like the Harvard Law Lorena Bobbitt.
[Door bell rings]
Miranda Hobbes : Ah, it's Skipper, I told him I was here and he insisted on picking me up. But he's not supposed to be here 'till eleven!
Carrie : Oh! He's like a sweet little seal pup.
Miranda Hobbes : That you sometimes want to club.
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[first lines]
Carrie : [narrating voice over] The most powerful woman in New York is not Tina Brown, or Diane Sawyer, or even Rosie O'Donnell. It's the hostess at Balzac, which had overnight become the only restaurant that mattered. And we were there to celebrate the moment.
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Carrie : [narrating voice over] I couldn't understand a word she was saying, but I felt I had in my possession all the Italian I'd ever need to know. Dolce, Dolce, Dolce. While at home, all the English I seemed to encounter was bills, bills, bills. I envied Amalita. Her life was a blur of rich men, designer clothes and glamorous resorts. She didn't actually work for a living, yet possessed a dazzling sexual power that she exploited to her full advantage, which presented a certain conundrum.
[to the camera]
Carrie : Where's the line between professional girlfriend and just plain professional?
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Samantha : Women have the right to use every means at their disposal to achieve power.
Miranda Hobbes : Short of sleeping their way to the top
Samantha : Not if that's what it takes to compete.
Charlotte York : But that's exploitation!
Samantha : Of men, - which is perfectly legal.
Carrie : [voice over narration] Saturday night, in an effort to save money, and maybe even pick up a few extra bucks, I invited the girls over for poker.
Charlotte York : I'll buy two.
Carrie : I'm in for three. So, you advocate a double standard. Women can use their sexuality to get ahead whenever possible, but men should not be allowed to take advantage of it?
Samantha : No, I'm just saying that men and women are equal-opportunity exploiters.
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[after Gilles has slept with Carrie, he leaves her a note and a thousand dollars]
Miranda Hobbes : [reading the note] "Thanks for the beautiful day." Must've been a hell of a beautiful day.
Carrie : Well, it was. We had such a fantastic connection, then he leaves me money. I don't understand. What exactly about me screams "whore"?
Miranda Hobbes : Besides the thousand dollars on the end table?
Samantha : I just can't believe you had dinner at Balzac. Wait a minute, I thought I ordered two eggs Benedict and one spinach omelette.
Miranda Hobbes : It's all right. I'll take the omelette.
Carrie : You know what you guys, this isn't right. We're gonna pay for all this ourselves, all right?
Samantha : He said order anything.
Miranda Hobbes : The room service is one thing, but the money... - uh-uh.
Samantha : What are you getting so uptight about? I mean, money is power. Sex is power. Therefore, getting money for sex is simply an exchange of power.
Miranda Hobbes : Don't listen to the dime store Camille Paglia.
Carrie : I don't know whether to take it as an incredible compliment or as an incredible insult?
Samantha : Just take it, period.
Carrie : Well, I wouldn't know how to return it anyway because the one thing he didn't leave me was his phone number.
Miranda Hobbes : He paid in full, what more is there to talk about? Who is this Amalita Amalfi character anyway? I'm concerned you've been drafted into a ring of high-class hookers.
Carrie : She isn't a hooker. She's like an international party girl.
Miranda Hobbes : She's a hooker with a passport.
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[last lines]
Carrie : [narrating voice over] They say a picture is worth a thousand words... But in this case... I was speechless.
