Sex and the City (TV Series)

The Power of Female Sex (1998)

Cynthia Nixon: Miranda Hobbes

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• [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.