“The Golden Girls” is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. The show was revolutionary in its focus on a previously underrepresented demographic: older, single women.
The show follows the lives of four women who share a home in Miami, Florida. The main characters are:
- Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur): A divorced, intelligent, and sarcastic substitute teacher.
- Rose Nylund (Betty White): A sweet but naive widow from the small town of St. Olaf, Minnesota.
- Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan): The vivacious and flirty owner of the house, known for her Southern Belle charm.
- Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty): Dorothy’s quick-witted and wisecracking mother, who lives with the ladies after her retirement home, Shady Pines, burned down.
The Golden Girls Quotes
Dorothy Zbornak: “Go to sleep, sweetheart. Pray for brains.”
Rose Nylund: “It’s like we say in St. Olaf — Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund’s Day without the headless boy.”
Sophia Petrillo: “I’m an old white woman. I’m not supposed to have color. You want color? Talk to Lena Horne.”
Sophia Petrillo: “People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass.”
Blanche Devereaux: “Nobody ever believes me when I’m telling the truth. I guess it’s the curse of being a devastatingly beautiful woman.”
Sophia: “Excuse me Rose, have I given any indication at all that I care?”
Sophia : “After 80, every year without a headstone is a milestone!”
Blanche : “No one in my family has ever seen a psychiatrist…except of course, when they were institutionalized!”
Blanche: “Eat dirt and die, trash.”
Blanche : “Isn’t it amazing how I can feel so bad, and still look so good?”
Blanche: “That child over there is trying to steal my daddy away. She ain’t better but a tick on a slow-moving hound dog.”
Dorothy: “Oh, c’mon Blanche. Age is just a state of mind. Blanche: Tell that to my thighs. “
Sophia: “Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs. Frankly, I’d rather live with a lesbian than a cat. Unless a lesbian sheds; that I don’t like.”
Terry Grossman: “At my age, how much can I sin? What, I had an impure thought? I’d kill to have an impure thought.”—
Rose: “Tell me, is it possible to love two men at the same time. Blanche: Set the scene, have we been drinking?”
Sophia: “Jealousy is an ugly thing, Dorothy. And so are you, in anything backless.”
Blanche: “Grandma Hollingsworth always said I was a little flighty…or was it a little floozy?”
Dorothy: “They were all buying T-shirts, you know, the ones that say, ‘Today is the first day of the end of your life.’”
Blanche: “I’ve been having a good time, and there wasn’t even a man in the room.”
Blanche Devereaux (Rue Mcclanahan) :
“I feel that you have backed me into a corner, and when I am backed into a corner, I come out fightin’ like a wildcat. Unless I’ve had too much to drink, in which case I slide down the wall and make mad passionate love on the carpet.”
Rose: “I wonder if jewelry comes from Jewish people? In Little Falls, the jeweler was Jewish. Jeweler, Jewish—I wonder if there’s a connection.”
Sophia: “I think there’s a connection between your brain and wallpaper paste.”
Blanche : “Well, nobody ever believes me when I’m telling the truth. I guess it’s the curse of every devastatingly beautiful woman.”
Blanche: “I slept with my two brothers until I was seventeen. I was engaged to one for a very short period of time, but that’s a separate story.”
Dorothy : “No! No, I will not have a nice day!”
Dorothy: “Oh, I remember when Stanley told me he was having an affair. It was at least 24 hours before I cut the crotches out of all his slacks.”
Sophia : “Have I given you any indication that I care?”
Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan : “Everything I have, you try to steal. May the bags under your eyes grow so large your head falls in ’em!”
Dorothy: “Ma, I have a feeling you’re lying. Rose: Dorothy, be positive. Dorothy: Okay, I’m positive you’re lying. “
Sophia: “My son married a welder. Too bad she didn’t weld his zipper shut. They got ten kids they can’t afford.”
Rose: “I know I look square, but I’m like my father’s tractor. I take a while to warm up, but once I get going I can turn your topsoil till the cows come home.”
