G.I. Jane quotes

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.

View Quote How am I supposed to fit in with these guys when you've got me setup as an outsider? You've given me a different set of rules. The answer is, I can't. I mean really, why didn't you just issue me a pink petticoat to wear around the base?

View Quote Sergeant Cortes, however brief your stint with this command might be, there are two words you will learn to put together: Team-Mate.

View Quote I'll never live this one down.

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