Change, to our predecessors, were sudden, exogenous events -- earthquakes, floods, an eclipse, a saber-toothed tiger lunging at you out of nowhere. They were things to be dealt with in the moment. Then things naturally reverted back to the norm. But now change happens over you. Change itself is the flood. Change itself is the saber-tooth. Change itself is the norm.

Henry

Hedy Ford: Don’t.
Miriam "Midge" Maisel: What?
Hedy Ford: Don’t.
Miriam "Midge" Maisel: Okay.
Hedy Ford: If the credit’s yours, take it. If it’s not, take it, that’s what the boys do.

I think I emerged from my mother’s womb giving advice on how to deal with the umbilical cord.

Abe Weissman

She will have whatever Shirley Temple drank right after Judy Garland got The Wizard Of Oz.

Danny Stevens

Rose Weissman: Your face still has traces of my face in it, so it’s almost the same face.
Miriam "Midge" Maisel: That’s a weird way of saying you’ve had work done.

I was a tenured professor at Columbia University. I worked at Bell Labs. I have twelve patents pending. That is my grandson. He is a Weissman. There is no possible way he’s happy.

Abe Weissman

A pink toilet is still a toilet, except it’s fun!

Miriam "Midge" Maisel

This is very serious. If this gets out, every working woman will want to get paid just as much as a man to do the exact same job, and our entire civilization will collapse.

Miriam "Midge" Maisel

I cannot expose unmarried women to nude wood floors. It would feel like a brothel.

Rose Weissman

Grandpa! Glitter sticks to your face!

Ethan Maisel

She saw a nervous breakdown and turned it into a career.

Miriam "Midge" Maisel

When Harry died, he had so many knives in his back, they had to bury him face down.

Aaron Lebowitz

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 Quotes

Miriam "Midge" Maisel: Does anyone really read corrections?
Abe Weissman: Of course they do. I start every paper reading the corrections, that’s how you know who the idiots are.

Miriam "Midge" Maisel: They act like they’ve never seen a Jewish mother before.
Ethan Maisel: Well, it’s Israel, Mama, helicopters suddenly appearing in the sky make people very nervous.