Season 1

“She’s young, she’s emptyheaded, she doesn’t eat. She’s a shiksa.”

— Daniel Palladino, Moishe Maisel, Kevin Pollak, imdb.com

“If women don’t realize what’s going on in the world, they won’t step in and fix it.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com

“Spontaneity works until it doesn’t work. Then you’re stuck.”

— Daniel Palladino, Susie Myerson, Alex Borstein, imdb.com

“It’s downtown. If you have underwear on, you’re overdressed.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com

“You meet a girl. Maybe she's pretty, maybe she's smart, maybe she's funny. Maybe your parents like her. Maybe you get really lucky, and she's one or two of those things. I got them all with you.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Joel Maisel, Michael Zegen, imdb.com

“The first time I laid eyes on you, that was it for me.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Joel Maisel, Michael Zegen, imdb.com

“How did I screw everything up so badly?”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Joel Maisel, Michael Zegen, imdb.com

“To be truly effective, you must be ugly.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Abe Weinberg, Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com

“Life isn’t fair. It’s hard and cruel. You have to pick your friends as if there’s a war going on.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Abe Weinberg, Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com

“Why do we have to pretend to be stupid when we're not stupid? Why do we have to pretend to be helpless when we're not helpless? Why do we have to pretend we're not hungry when we're hungry?”

— Daniel Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com

“Calling that thing a house is like calling the Vatican a church.”

— Daniel Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com