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Love Quote by Pia Zadora

"I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free"

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Pia Zadora’s line lands like a wink dressed up as wisdom: it’s “good advice,” but delivered with the cadence of someone who knows advice is often just hindsight with better lighting. She frames premarital caution in the most un-lecturelike way possible, using the blunt, slightly comic “jump into the sack” to keep the tone earthly and unpretentious. This is not a sermon about virtue; it’s a practical strategy for emotional risk management.

The intent is to sell a simple sequencing: like first, sleep later. But the subtext admits how messy desire actually is. Zadora doesn’t pretend people won’t “jump”; she’s negotiating the order of operations so the landing hurts less. The phrase “home free” is the tell: love becomes a finish line, sex a potential trapdoor, and compatibility the safety rail you install before the stunt. It’s a very showbiz way to talk about intimacy - romance as plot, timing as everything, consequences as box-office.

Context matters because an actress of Zadora’s era is speaking from a culture that publicly policed women’s sexuality while privately fetishizing it. Her phrasing splits the difference: it nods to traditional respectability (“get to know somebody”) without denying agency or appetite. That tension is why it works. The line isn’t about morality; it’s about control - reclaiming a little narrative power in a world eager to write the script for you.

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Zadora, Pia. (2026, January 16). I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-gonna-give-them-the-advice-that-i-always-took-115809/

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Zadora, Pia. "I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-gonna-give-them-the-advice-that-i-always-took-115809/.

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"I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-gonna-give-them-the-advice-that-i-always-took-115809/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Pia Zadora (born May 4, 1953) is a Actress from USA.

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