40 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Quotes: A Zesty Blend of Comedy and Feminism

To this day, the illusion lives on that women can not or are not as funny as men. In the series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," Miriam "Midge" Maisel from the 1950s challenges this myth. Read 40 quotes from this series to find out more.

Miriam Maisel, or "Midge" as she is known, lives in New York with her husband, Joel Maisel, who works a day job while trying to make a career out of comedy at night. There is just one problem: he isn't funny.

After he leaves her for another woman, she spontaneously decides to stand up on stage and deliver her brand of comedy, only to receive a bounty of laughter. This moment changes her life as she begins to pursue a comedy career. Read 40 quotes from this series to learn more.

Miriam "Midge" Maisel, with her quote: “Because, really, if there’s no loyalty, what's the point of a partnership?” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

Miriam “Midge” Maisel Quotes

"Why do women have to pretend to be something that they’re not? 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 to be sorry when we have nothing to be sorry about? Why do we have to pretend we’re not hungry when we’re hungry?" — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

“All that applause for me? What am I, putting out after? One standing ovation, everyone goes home pregnant.” — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

"It's downtown. If you have underwear on, you're overdressed." — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

"Calling that thing a house is like calling the Vatican a church." — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

“Big room, it's just more people to fall in love with you.” — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

Miriam "Midge" Maisel, with her quote: "It’s the bras. And the girdles and the corsets, all designed to cut off the circulation to your brain..." | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

“Hiroshima was tense. Breakfast was worse.” — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

"The horse can go to hell.” — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

“[Expletive] happens. You should be a bigger man and just let it go. Well, I'm a woman, so [expletive] that.” — 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

Miriam "Midge" Maisel, with her quote: "Bald men can be attractive—with the right hat." | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

“Comedy is fueled by oppression, by the lack of power...” — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

“Because, really, if there’s no loyalty, what's the point of a partnership?” — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

"It’s the bras. And the girdles and the corsets, all designed to cut off the circulation to your brain..." — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

"Bald men can be attractive—with the right hat." — Miriam “Midge” Maisel

Susie Myerson Quotes

Susie Myerson with her quote: “She is gonna open up her walk-in closet of skeletons.” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

"No one needs a good laugh like the truly, deeply [expletive]." — Susie Myerson

“Are you done playing with lipstick? 'Cause I got you a gig.” — Susie Myerson

"Get back on that horse." — Susie Myerson

“To Jackie. A man who didn't suffer fools gladly and thought everyone was a fool.” — Susie Myerson

Susie Myerson with her quote: “Rose Weissman, I would follow you into hell.” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

“She is gonna open up her walk-in closet of skeletons.” — Susie Myerson

"What do you do about the Gordons and the Petes and all the [expletive] men that run the [expletive] world?" — Susie Myerson

“Rose Weissman, I would follow you into hell.” — Susie Myerson

Abe Weissman Quotes

"All right, everybody. Time’s up. Put your papers on my desk if they contain the correct answers. Otherwise, just don’t." — Abe Weissman

"Sometimes I tune people out, but mostly because they rarely have anything useful or interesting to say." — Abe Weissman

Abe Weissman, with his quote: “Shirley tells me you’re gonna be buried in Israel. Any idea when?” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

“Well, look whose hobby is being snobby.” — Abe Weissman

“To be truly effective, you must be ugly.” — Abe Weissman

"I have to see if my granddaughter is the grandson I’ve been waiting for." — Abe Weissman

“Shirley tells me you’re gonna be buried in Israel. Any idea when?” — Abe Weissman

"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

Abe Weissman, with his quote: “To be truly effective, you must be ugly.” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

“You have to pick your friends as if there’s a war going on.” — Abe Weissman

More ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Quotes

“Darkness enveloped me like an old mink coat.” — Sophie Lennon

"She will have whatever Shirley Temple drank right after Judy Garland got,'The Wizard Of Oz.'" — Danny Stevens

Joel Maisel with his quote: “I got you into this, I’ll see it through [to] the end.” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

"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 ’em all. That’s a lot." — Joel Maisel

"Believe me, honey, if there’s a hell, I’m the headliner." — Lenny Bruce

"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

"If the credit’s yours, take it. If it’s not, take it, that’s what the boys do." — Hedy Ford

“I got you into this, I’ll see it through [to] the end.” — Joel Maise

Abe Weissman, with his quote:“You have to pick your friends as if there’s a war going on.” | Source: youtube.com/PrimeVideoUK

While the idea that women can't do comedy has not entirely died out, more female comedians have been and are getting the limelight they deserve.

Some of these current comedian stars include Ali Wong, Quinta Brunson, Michelle Buteau, Chelsea Peretti, Nicole Byer, Tracee Ellis Ross, Taylor Tomlinson, and the iconic Jennifer Coolidge, who made her recent comeback in the "White Lotus."

Read about another iconic woman from a series who works in a male-dominated field by going through these 42 Cristina Yang quotes.