David Frankel Quotes

My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

I have no sex appeal, which kills me. The only way I can ever hear heavy breathing from my husband's side of the bed is when he's having an asthma attack.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

I've been married most of my life. And when you're married, you don't have sex.

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

My husband says, 'God, Roseanne, I can't remember the last time we had sex.' Well, I can, and that is why we ain't doing it.

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

Sometimes sex gets in the way of a relationship.

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I've had a lot of dates, but I don't think there's been anyone that special or important.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.