Love & Passion Quote by Linda Fiorentino

It lands like a one-liner but plays like a miniature family epic: sex reduced to a tidy, countable chore, performed only as often as necessary to produce the kids and then promptly retired. Linda Fiorentino’s joke weaponizes arithmetic to puncture the cultural myth of the endlessly desirable, effortlessly romantic mother. The humor is in the absurd precision of "eight times" - not "a few" or "hardly ever", but a number that sounds like it came from an audit. That specificity signals a taboo curiosity (children imagining their parents having sex) while giving the audience a clean, comic handle.

The intent is deflation. In one sentence, she collapses the sentimental pedestal of motherhood into something mundane, transactional, almost bureaucratic. The subtext isn’t just prudishness; it’s a portrait of a certain generation’s domestic script where sexuality disappears behind duty, Catholic guilt, or postwar respectability. It’s also a sly self-portrait: the speaker grew up in a house where sex was so unspoken it becomes imaginable only as a limited series.

As an actress known for cool, sharp-edged roles, Fiorentino delivers the line as a cultural tell: women are expected to be sexy, but mothers are expected to be sexless, and everyone is supposed to pretend that contradiction makes sense. The laugh comes from saying the unsayable, then making it sound like a perfectly reasonable statistic.