20th Century Women--Essay About Orgasm

Chance 2022-07-25 16:30:21

"You can see him outside, I can't."

Hearing this sentence, I was inexplicably heartbroken. This is the feeling of parents. We often ask our parents to understand ourselves, and how often did we understand our parents?

"What does an orgasm feel like?"

"I don't know, and neither do my friends."

"Then why do it?"

"Because sometimes it's to see the way he looks at you, and sometimes it's to see his body, because most of the time you can't see it. So you try it, although half of it will regret it after seeing it. "

"Then why are you still doing it?"

"Because I don't regret the remaining half."

Turns out, it's true that most women who have been hearing about not having an orgasm usually just fake it. Does this mean that women are sexually inferior, or does it mean that women pretend to be in love?

"What man do you know who tries to understand a woman's orgasm?"

It's really sad that people who might spend a lifetime together don't even try to understand each other.

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20th Century Women quotes

  • Jamie: I thought that was just the beginning of a new relationship with her, where she'd really tell me stuff. But maybe it was never really like that again. Maybe that was it.

    Dorothea: In March of 1999, I'll start to feel tired and confused. When I finally go to the doctor, he will say that the cancer in my lungs had already travelled to my breast and brain. I'll try to teach Jamie what to do with my stocks, but my instructions will be impossible to understand.

    Julie: Abbie will take me to Planned Parenthood. And I will go on the pill. I will go to NYU and lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, and I will stop talking to my mom, I will fall in love with Nicholas, we will move to Paris, and choose not to have children.

    Abbie: I will stay in Santa Barbara. In just two years, I'll marry Dave. A month after I get married Carlotta will die. A week later, Max will die too. I will work out of my garage and show in local galleries. Against my doctor's advice, I will get pregnant, and by the time I'm thirty I'll have two boys.

    William: I'll live with Dorothea for another year. Then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona Arizona. I will marry Laurie, a singer-songwriter. We'll get divorced in a year. Then I'll meet Sandy, we will marry, and I will continue to do my pottery.

    Jamie: My mom will meet Jim in 1983, they'll be a couple until she dies. On her birthday each year, he will buy her a trip on a biplane. Years after she's gone I'll finally get married and have a son. I'll try to explain to him what his grandmother was like - but it will be impossible.

  • Jamie: [to his mom] You know, when the firemen come... people don't usually invite them for dinner.