Mrs. America
Wednesdays on FX (Hulu Exclusive)Mrs. America Season 1 Episode 7: "Bella" Quotes
I want you to imagine a group of Native Alaskan women getting on a bus in Fairbanks. Appalachian women getting on a bus in Beattyville. Homemakers getting on a bus in Toledo. They're all travelling to represent their state. All of them yearning to have a voice in government. To vote on issues that affect their lives.
Gloria
Bella: So now we're not gonna have people we disagree with participate?
Gloria: Not if we want Houston to be inclusive.
Bella: You want to be inclusive by excluding? Would you listen to yourself?
This is exactly what I warned would happen with the Democrats in charge; it's a federally funded festival for frustrated feminists.
Phyllis
Pamela: So anyone can run, not just the liberals?
Phyllis: Yes, it's called the electoral process.
That's the difference between you and me. You want to preach to the choir.
Bella: It was the first Supreme Court petition I'd ever written, it was my first trip to the south, it was the first time I got a death threat. They said Willie McGee's white woman lawyer should be executed along with him in the electric chair. I slept disguised above a brothel, because vigilantes stalked the hotels. The whole time I was scared shitless. I lost the baby. Stress, the doctor said. They got to me. I left Mississippi before the case was over. I had so much still to do. There is so much still to do.
Gloria: Fear never moved mountains.
If we pull this off, Houston will be the death knell of the women's liberation movement. Let's blow it up.
Phyllis
Gloria: We finally have a place that's ours, and they're going to ruin it.
Bella: I've spent almost ten years in this town; I know what I can get done and what I can't, something you've never had to learn.
Gloria: I've learned that I'm not willing to sit on another convention floor, getting called a murderer of babies. I'm not willing to let women speak who are getting funding by the Birchers. I'm sick of trading our dreams for a bit of the middle. This was supposed to be our Eden, and you've let the snakes in. You were a bigger radical than me when we met.
Bella: And you were a dilettante who wanted to play politics.
