Quotes from Joanie Stubbs

Smart, tough, yet vulnerable. That's Joanie. She manages to be practical without being brutal, despite her hard life.

Season 1 episode 3

(my favorite Joanie line)
Al: You do not want to be a dirt worshipping heathen from this fucking point forward. (to Joanie) Pardon my French.
Joanie: Oh, I speak French.

Season 1 episode 6

Ellsworth: Well, Ma’am, I’ve got myself a workin’ gold claim.
Joanie: Well, sir, is that a damn fact?
Ellsworth: Yes, Ma’am, a hell of a workin’ gold claim. And if we knew each other better, I’d throw a fuckin’ in there somewhere.
Joanie: If you did, I’d try to catch it.

to one of the whores) You’d do better if the tricks didn’t think lookin’ at ‘em made you cry.

Season 1 episode 7

Joanie: I prefer you happy, honey. But if you can’t be, you need to pretend at it better than you’re doin’, or you’re gonna be hungry, and cold, and getting done to you for nothing outside what you’d’ve made money to live on and save up besides, if you acted the part in here.
Flora: I thought I only had to act it with them that want to stick it in me.
Joanie: You never know who that might be, Flora.

Season 1 episode 8

Flora: I just come to say…I don’t know if I can do this. It’s horrible! It’s one thing leads to another, and you never know when it’s gonna happen.
Joanie: But mostly, you can steer it, sweetheart, and when it’s going to get to where you can’t, you get just a little notice, just a couple of seconds, before the one thing turns into the other. It’s like a funny smell comes into the air. And then you know, there’s no more steering and get the hell out of the way.

Joanie: Kill me, too, Cy. Or let me go.
Cy: I understood myself to be sayin’, Joanie, I want to find a way to give you a looser fuckin’ rein.
Joanie: You’ve gotta figure out a way to mean it. And if you don’t kill me or let me go, I’m gonna kill you.

Season 1 episode 9

Charlie: I tell you what, something’s ready for you to do somethin’, don’t seem to matter if you’re ready or not.
Joanie: Better lift your skirts and jump, huh?

Season 1 episode 11

Cy: Are you home, honey?
Joanie: I gave up waiting for that search party you didn’t send, Cy.