The Story of Us (1999)
Rita Wilson: Rachel
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Quotes
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Rachel : It is physically impossible to French-kiss a man who leaves the new roll of toilet paper resting on top of the empty cardboard roll. Does he not see it? DOES HE NOT *SEE* IT?
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Rachel : You were our Fred and Ethel Mertz!
Katie Jordan : Funny, we thought you were OUR Fred and Ethel Mertz.
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Rachel : Marriage is the Jack Kevorkian of romance.
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Rachel : [to Katie] But that's Ben - that's who you fell in love with. Katie, you are at 80 who you are at 8. People don't *change*!
[following scene]
Rachel : [to Ben] People *change* over time - you've got to expect that. Ben, the only way a relationship works is if people grow and change together!
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Rachel : It's not an affair. Theresa never had sex with him, they just kissed.
Katie Jordan : A kiss is an affair.
Liza : You think so?
Katie Jordan : Absolutely. Once you establish anything truly intimate with another person, even talking, it has to affect the person you're supposed to be the most intimate with.
Liza : But the crazy thing is that Theresa could fuck her husband. She just couldn't kiss him, I mean really kiss him.
Rachel : It's not so crazy. There have been times when I'm so angry at Stan that I could fuck him but I don't want that count on anyone near me.
Katie Jordan : A kiss can be so much more intimate than sex.
Liza : Yeah. Why is that?
Rachel : Because fucking means "yeah, yeah, I love you" but a kiss, a kiss means "I like you".
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Rachel : The key to a happy marriage is to accept the essential chasm between men and women.
Liza : Which is?
Rachel : A man can mend a fight with sex. A woman can't have sex until they've resolved the fight.
Liza : Why is that?
Rachel : It's the basic difference between the penis and the vagina. A penis is a thruster, a battering ram, if you will. Even if it's mad, it can ram. Sometimes it even helps. It's the mad ram principle. However, the vagina - ah, the vagina. The vagina has to be relaxed in order to open and receive. It can't be that gracious hostess in a state of anger. And that goes for blow jobs and kissing as well. Every female point of entry needs to know that the penis is coming... in peace.