Mrs. America
Wednesdays on FX (Hulu Exclusive)Mrs. America Season 1 Episode 6: "Jill" Quotes
Wayne: Is it me, or the gal is never happy?
Shirley: Not when the gals are only making 56% of what the men make.
Wayne: So you won't be happy until you make a hundred percent of what men make?
Shirley, Bella, and Jill: Yes!
Wayne: State meetings open to the public? Sounds like a fiasco.
Jill: I have never been associated with a fiasco. Massacres, yes; fiascos, no.
Jill: Aw, seven more years and you're free!
Phyllis: Motherhood is freedom, Jill.
Jill: I haven't been able to figure out why a Harvard educated expert on Nuclear arms with twenty years experience in defense policy would suddenly take up a women's issue.
Phyllis: It affects me.
Billy likes to say that we educate men and women through college to be precisely equal, but then the men go off to do interesting things.
Phyllis: Your husband supports you leaving your children on a Saturday afternoon?
Jill: Yes, he wants me to have my own life, my own career.
Phyllis: Well, there's nothing stopping you from doing just that.
Do you know what I had to do to get my commission funded? I had to let more than a dozen congressmen put a hand on my arm, my hip, my backside. More than a dozen demanded to see my pretty smile before they agreed to sign on. I had to say, "you'd be our hero," and "you have so much clout," more times than I can remember. And that is nothing compared to what those secretaries on the Hill are dealing with on a daily basis.
Let me tell you something about those kind of women, Phyllis. They could be me, they could be you! They're just trying to get a fair shake. They wanna go to work, get paid, go home. They're not asking to be harassed, manhandled, degraded, assaulted.
