All About My Mother by Pedro Almodovar

"Women will do anything to avoid being alone"

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

"most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad" - women who casually sleep around fear this 'afterwards' the most; the sense of emptiness that cannot be filled.

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

"if I was you I'd be very ashamed of myself"

"Am I allowed to tell you how stupid it looks? ... I will anyway. Stupid, and ugly too. I don't know what you do about sex and I don't want to know, but this is not the way to go about it."

"That is what whores are for, after all: to put up with the ecstasies of the unlovely."

'An inglorious end to your career, don't you think? I won't ask if what you got from this girl was worth the price.'

'...it's all very demeaning. Really.'

`...The whole thing is disgraceful from beginning to end. Disgraceful and vulgar too.'