Marvelous Mrs Maisel Quotes

don’t want to beat a dead lamb, but let me say again that contradictions between Old Testament laws aren’t exactly an industry secret. Jewish tradition has wrestled with them since before Christianity. Biblical scholars write books about it. Who knows, perhaps a future episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will have Midge’s mom stressed out about how exactly to prepare the Passover lamb.

…My daughter was dumped by her husband out of nowhere. That was her sabertooth. Instead of collapsing from the weight, she emerged stronger. A new person, so I thought, but now I think perhaps that was who she was all along. I never really took her seriously. My son, Noah, I took seriously. I would take him to Colombia with me every week so he could dream of what he could be. I don't remember if I ever did that for Miriam. I don't think it ever occurred to me. As unfathomable as this career choice of hers is, she's doing it on her own with no help from me or her mother. Where did this come from? This strength, this fearlessness that I never had. That my poor son never had. What could she have been if I had helped her and not ignored her, ignored who she really is. My daughter is a remarkable person and I don't think I've ever said that to her. - Abe Weissman, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

I want a big life; I want to experience everything. I want to break every single rule there is. They say ambition is an unattractive trait in a woman -maybe. But you know what's really unattractive? Waiting around for something to happen. Staring out a window, thinking the life you should be living is out there somewhere, but not being willing to open the door and go out there and get it, even if someone tells you you can't. Being a coward is only cute in 'The Wizard of Oz'.

I don't mind being alone. I just do not want to be insignificant.