Masters of Sex Quotes
What is it that we're hiding, exactly? You don't have a wife anymore, Bill. I don't have a husband. We've just gotten so used to keeping secrets that we've forgotten that we don't have to anymore.
Virginia
I believe in the science, just like I'm glad there's a polio vaccine, but I wouldn't want to be the rat that tried it first. Listen to me, throw that away. You don't know what's real, and what's a performance when there's someone watching. Doing it behind the glass, it changes you.
Lester
We have the chance to go someplace where nobody knows us, where we don't have friends or colleagues who think of us as swingers. We can make a fresh start, the two of us together at our own clinic.
Nancy
Libby: The idea of standing up in front of a judge, even in small claims court is...
Keller: Intoxicating.
Libby: Completely. Have you... have you ever heard of a woman my age taking classes or going back to school?
Keller: It's not common, but there's not much about you that is.
Virginia: How many times did I make you feel this way?
Bill: Once or twice or a thousand times.
Virginia: I'm so sorry.
Maybe the next woman who wants to love you, you'll be brave enough to let her.
Dody
Come on, you have to admit we've been treated terribly at this clinic. Our talents have been overlooked and undermined by a lounge singer with a degree in typing.
Nancy
Dody: What did the note say?
Bill: What does it matter now?
Dody: Because I want to know if I might have had an entirely different life with a different man. Did you ask me a question in that letter, Billy?
Bill: I did.
Dody: I would have said yes.
But it's interesting though, the suggestion that feeling undeserving of pleasure can affect the way a man perceives himself... choices he makes.
Bill
If I know Virginia, she'll take full advantage of this trip. They're posing as a couple, after all. They're going through treatment. I think she's hoping the Masters and Johnson method will work on Masters and Johnson.
Art
The fact that Helen loved me, doesn't change who she was and how much she loved you.
Betty
In my experience, the truth can come at a very high price. You can lose people you love, pieces of yourself, but in the end it's worth it. It's worth it to know where you really stand.
Barton
