Sherry Argov Quotes

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

If men want sex they'll find it.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

I think there's something inherently different about working with females. I mean, it's just a different way of looking at life, being a woman. But I think we can handle many things at one time and I don't think that's necessarily true for men.

I think we have a very skewed idea of what sex is nowadays. TV, video games and the Internet are set up to raise men to be predators.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.

Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.