When Harry Met Sally Gender Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from When Harry Met Sally.

Quote #4

HARRY: Great! A woman friend... You know you may be the first attractive woman I have not wanted to sleep with in my entire life.

SALLY: That's wonderful, Harry.

Serious question, Shmoopers: do you believe Harry here?

Quote #5

HARRY: Ooh, Ingrid Bergman, now she's low-maintenance.

SALLY: Low-maintenance?

HARRY: There are two kinds of women. High-maintenance and low-maintenance.

SALLY: And Ingrid Bergman is low-maintenance?

HARRY: In LM, definitely.

SALLY: Which one am I?

HARRY: You're the worst kind. You're high-maintenance but you think you're low-maintenance.

Eek. This exchange might raise a few feminist hackles. But to put a less controversial spin on it, we'll just point out that this exchange about high- and low-maintenance women shows us just how close these two have become. Harry calls Sally out for being HM, and Sally doesn't get offended. She's genuinely curious.

Quote #6

HARRY: It's just different. It's a whole new perspective. I get the woman's point of view on things. She tells me about the men she goes out with and I can talk to her about the women that I see.

What exactly is that "woman's point of view"? What does Sally seem to think about the women Harry sees?