- Jolene: Instead of the black cleaning woman, they wanted a clean, Black woman, with a nice ass and a good vocabulary.
- Beth Harmon: So what will your fellow radicals think, you being with a rich white lawyer?
- Jolene: Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
- Jolene: [to Beth while looking at the trailer that Beth lived in as a child] A trailer? Wow, you really were the gold standard for white-trash girls everywhere, weren't you?
- Jolene: [after returning a book she had hidden from Beth] It was me all along. I was pissed at you for being adopted.
- Beth Harmon: What about for being a white trash, cracker bitch?
- Jolene: Who could forget?
- Beth Harmon: [after looking at a political statement the Christian Crusade wants her to make in return for financially supporting her trip to play in Moscow] I'm a chess player.
- Mrs. Dodge: Of course you are my dear. But you're also a Christian.
- Beth Harmon: I'm not sure about that.
- [pause while continuing to look at the statement, then returning it]
- Beth Harmon: Look, I have no intention of saying anything like this.
- Mrs. Dodge: Why not?
- Beth Harmon: Because it's fucking nonsense?
- Alice Harmon: You know, most times when people tell us something's for the best, it's for the worst.
- Jolene: I'm gonna be a radical.
- Beth Harmon: Didn't know that was a career choice.
- Jolene: It will be.