G.I. Jane quotes

View Quote 60% of you will not pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical fact! Now for the bad news, I always like to get one quitter on the first day, and until I do, that first day does not end!

View Quote Blondell: Lieutenant, why are you doing this?
Jordan: Do you ask the men the same question?
Blondell: As a matter of fact: yes, I do ask them.
Jordan: And what do they say?
Blondell: "Cause I get to blow shit up."
Jordan: Well, there you go.

View Quote C.O. Salem: [after Jordan demands that he remove the dual standard] One standard.
Jordan: Just treat me the same. No better, no worse.
C.O. Salem: You're gonna get everything you want, O'Neil. I just wonder if you want what you're gonna get.
Jordan: Hoo-yah, sir.

View Quote Cortez: Hey, O'Neil! I'd go to war with you any day!
McCool: [after one trainee mentions that things have changed for the better for African-Americans] Have they? So you see, O'Neil. I know where you're coming from. To them you're just the new **** on the block, that's all. Maybe you just moved in a little too early.

View Quote Cortez: You know O'Neil, I like you better when you drink.
Jordan: You know Cortez, I like you better when I drink.

View Quote DeHaven: Captain, are you in the habit of lettin' reporters traipse around your base, snappin' their fill? These are supposed to be discreet test cases!
C.O. Salem: Senator, they stand out on a public highway using telephoto lenses. There is nothin' I can do about it, unless you want me to infringe on their civil liberties, which I will be glad to do, if you'll just trim a little fat off the Constitution.
DeHaven: Did you just mouth off to a senior member of the Senate Arms Committee? I mean, I'll give you points for style, just nothin' for smarts!

View Quote DeHaven: Don't you even think of playing politics with me, little darlin', you'll be up way past your bedtime.
Jordan: And don't YOU think that I'll sit idly by while anyone smears my good name. Now you get those charges VOIDED, Senator. And you do it today!
DeHaven: [tauntingly] Or what?
Jordan: You like pissed off? Watch this.
[storms out]

View Quote Jordan: I think you've resented me from the start, sir.
C.O. Salem: What I resent, Lieutenant, is some politician using my base as a test tube for her grand social experiment. What I resent, is the sensitivity training that is now mandatory for all of my men. The ob-gyn I now have to keep on staff just to keep track of your personal pap smears. But most of all what I resent, is your perfume, however subtle, interfering with the scent of my fine three-dollar-and-seventy-nine-cent cigar, which I will put out this instant if the phallic nature of it happens to offend your GODDAMN FRAGILE SENSIBILITIES! Does it?
Jordan: No, sir.
C.O. Salem: "No, sir" WHAT?
Jordan: The shape doesn't bother me. Just the goddamn sweet stench.

View Quote Jordan: You were given the Navy Cross right? May I ask what you got it for?
Urgayle: Since it bears on this conversation, I got it for pulling a 250-pound man out of a burning tank.
Jordan: So stopping to save a man makes you a hero, but if a man stops to help a woman, he's gone soft?
Urgayle: Could you have pulled that man clear? Lieutenant, you couldn't even haul your own body weight out of the water today.

View Quote Slovnik: Lemme get this straight. Now we're *sharing the same ****ing head*!
Jordan: Listen, you moron! I am here to stay and if you don't wanna be in my life, you've got two choices. Move out or Ring out! That's it! End of File!
Wickwire: [to Slovnik] I say you've got less than one minute to get your ****ing clothes on!

View Quote Urgayle: I don't know what the hell's been going on in the last 48 hours. And frankly I don't give a shit.
Jordan: Good to see you too, Master Chief.

View Quote Urgayle: Is there anything *else* we can do for your celebrity career, Lieutenant?
Jordan: That will be all...

View Quote Urgayle: Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?
Jordan: Don't know!
Urgayle: It lets you know you're not dead yet!

View Quote [on why she started Lt. O'Neil on the SEAL program in the first place] Truthfully, I never expected you to do so damn well! I figured you'd ring out in two weeks, bing bang it's over, and we're popular. In Washington, you don't even need the Ten Commandments when you're popular!

View Quote [quoting "Self-Pity" by D.H. Lawrence] I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.