《20th Century Women》Some lines in the movie

Wondering if you're happy is a great shortcut to just being depressed.

Why are you fine being sad and alone?

Figure out how to be yourself in all this mess.

Don't you need a man to raise a man?

You never tell me what you're gonna do. You just do it.

He has every right to be mad.

You don't have very many funny lines.

Do you want to fool around... with me?

She started sneaking into my house.

Sex is a commitment. Once you're there, you can't go back to holding hands, and when you give yourself, both mentally and physically, well, you're completely vulnerable.

Of all the misconceptions about love, the most powerful and persuasive is the belief that falling in love is love, or at least one of the manifestations of love.

Love is supposed to be a feeling that you feel. People say that they're falling in love, but they're not actually falling in love. It's a fake connection that you feel with someone... and marriage should never happen.

Man always feel like they have to fix things for women or they're not doing anything, but some things just can't be fixed. Just be there. Somehow that's hard for all of you.

This is the really hard part. And then what happens is, there's a hard part and then it gets better. And then it gets hard again, but never mind.

Smoking's gross. It gives you cancer.

You don't kiss a woman unless you know what you mean by it.

Women's sexuality, defined by men to benefit men, has been downgraded and perverted, repressed and channeled. Anatomically, all orgasms are centered in the clitoris, whether they result from direct manual pressure applied to the clitoris, indirect pressure resulting from...

The next time a dude tells you a sex story, you just have to agree with everything he says and act like it's right, even if it's not, because they don't wanna be contradicted. They just wanna live in their fantasy lands.

Whatever you think your life is going to be like, just know it's not gonna be anything like that.

I don't make choices, when they... about women. They just... come to me.

He just didn't turn out like I thought he would.

How much you love the kid. You're just pretty much screwed.

I don't want you to end up in the same place as me. Well, I wanted you to be happier. And I just didn't think I could do it by myself.