Quotes from Ginny & Georgia

Love. It's up. It's down. It's easy. It's hard. It's a motherf-...

Love. Everyone thinks love is so beautiful. Such a fairytale.

You just called Britney Spears retro, so I have to go cryogenically freeze myself.

Ellen: "I quit being a mom. The hours are long, and the pay sucks."
Georgia: "No kidding! Austin still hasn't said a single word to me."
Ellen: "Oh, not mine. Mine talk. They won't shut up."

Max: "Fall in a ditch!"
Marcus: "Well, I already did that."

Abby: "I didn't want you to get hurt."
Max: "That's funny. That's what everyone who keeps hurting me keeps saying!"

I'd do anything to protect my kids like no one ever protected me. Anything.

We're like the penguins. We can't fly, but maybe we can learn to swim.

Because you can't choose who you love. Your person is your person, and that is undeniable.

Through the lens is how the world makes sense to me.

The things you really need to fear don't go bump in the night. The things you really need to fear exist in us already. We're the monsters.

You can't fall in love if you always have your guard up.

What if all your dreams come true, and it's still not enough?

Momma's dating life is like that desert - nothing in sight as far as the eye can see.

Why are you smiling like you're about to tell Pinky the plan is to take over the world?

I know about masks. Mine never comes off. Moving around all the time. I'm too white for the black kids and not white enough for the white kids.

If beauty is a weapon, then Georgia has always been locked and loaded.

You're so responsible. Sometimes I can't believe you cam out of me.

Marcus: "My bike. It's gone. She took it."
Max: "So that's like Grand Theft Auto. Or Grand Theft Bike."

Ellen: "Ten minutes, or I'm taking away your phone."
Marcus: "Good. We're wasting our lives chained to these screens for our dopamine hits. Does it actually make us more fulfilled? No."
Max: "If I could have my phone surgically embedded into my hand, I would."

We celebrate a holiday that praises our success at genocide. It's a white celebration of colonization. That's not sadistic enough. We package it up with the image of a happy, smiling turkey. The emblem of the holiday is the animal that we slaughter en masse.

Max: "Welcome back, b-tches!"
Ellen: "Maxine, don't call Nanna and Pappy b-tches."

Georgia: "I'm worried about you, Peach."
Ginny: "Is that why your wrinkles are so pronounced?"

What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.

It's the worst betrayal since Jordyn and Kylie!

Of course I hurt myself. When you don't have a voice, you have to scream somehow.

Cool people don't say they're cool.

Life won't throw you parties. You gotta make your own!

Men are visual creatures, so give them something to look at.

Love is a lot of things, Maxine. Safe isn't one of them.

For a woman, life is a battle. And beauty is a goddamn machine gun.

If I could skin you and wear your prepubescent face, I would.

It's about the fact that aging is a horrible, inevitable death sentence where your body betrays you slowly 'til you die.

Ginny: "Don't flirt with the students or other parents. And, please, don't hotbox a classroom."
Georgia: "I only did that once."

Halloween is, like, the sexiest holiday. We can't stay in and watch movies like losers.

Max: "Halloween is, like, my favorite holiday other than my birthday."
Ginny: "Unless your name is Jesus, I don't think your birthday counts as a holiday."

Fantasies are for people with 401 ks. You gotta keep your feet on the hard ground and your head outta your ass!

My mum has never had trouble with men. It's effortless to her, like breathing. She always knows what to say, how to be. It's like, I don't know, got magical powers or something. She's unapologetically fearless. She just puts herself out there. Men, sex, all of it. I swear to God, I'm adopted.

Halloween is a chance for everybody to one-up themselves.

In case you haven't noticed: I'm 30 and single with two kids from two different guys. Does that look like the ideal, picture-perfect picket fence to you?

There are two things you can get from sex with a man: passion or power. But you better make sure you're getting something. Otherwise you're just getting screwed.

Passion or power. Power is cold, it's about control. It's a game, there are winners and losers. If someone has power, that means intrinsically that someone else does not. I always thought that when the time came for me to have sex, I'd want passion. Passion is hot. But now, I think you only want passion until you've been burned. Then power starts looking really good. Never let your guard down - I get it now. I guess in the end you're still just getting screwed. For the first time in my life, I think I finally started to understand my mother.

Sometimes when I catch my mum at a certain angle, it feels like I'm looking at someone I don't know.

I'm not going to be white and bougie even if you put me in a cable-knit sweater.

If they can see where your makeup ends and your face begins, you've done it wrong.

Looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the rotten tree.

You win more flies with honey, but if you get yourself a bee, sting first!

We're like The Gilmore Girls but with bigger boobs.

Georgia: "I get it. I have a teenager."
Ellen Baker: "What? No way. What, did you give birth when you were 12?"
Georgia: "15."

You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.