So Fetch Quotes

“She hadn’t realized this might be a detriment in the case of a movie about and for teen girls. The script, as Fey first turned it in, was clearly R-rated, which would eliminate most of its target audience. It needed a PG-13 rating to succeed at the box office.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“Monday is the most important day because you want to look your best—it sets the tone for the rest of the week. So wearing something like sweats on a Monday is like going to church and screaming ‘I hate Jesus!’ when you walk in the door. Friday is downtime. When we hang out that night, we wear sweats, watch movies, and talk about what bothered us during the week.” This results in the movie’s legendary edict “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“We need to give girls credit for the sophistication of their social structures. Our best politicians and diplomats can’t match a girl who understands the social intrigue and political landscape that lead to power.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“Mean Girls’ legacy is like Cady’s Spring Fling crown—there’s a piece of it for each and every one of us. Get in, loser. We’re going back to 2004.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“The result of Mean Girls’ own phenomenon was a macro, fun-house-mirror reflection of the very themes it sought to explore: the ways girls and women are pitted against each other and held to impossible standards, so that the more spectacular their rise, the more doomed they are to fall.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“It got its own internet holiday, October 3, Mean Girls Day, a day that has been acknowledged by not only BuzzFeed and Instagram but also heads of state and international space crews.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“Mean Girls has transcended generations at a time when generational warfare burns hotter than ever. Being a teenager doesn’t seem to get any easier—and thus Mean Girls has become a timeless classic in the twenty years since its release.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“It’s no surprise that the patriarchy could find a way to turn Mean Girls against the young women it spoke most to.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“Girls were responding to these films’ darker aspects, analysts said. “Today’s teen girls want to see movies that speak to them more on their level, rather than giving them a sanitized view of teen life,” Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations, a box office tracking firm, told USA Today. “The paradigm is shifting toward going after the teen audience in a more realistic way with edgier portrayals, things that today’s teens can relate to.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation

“Mean Girls marked a change in the pop culture rules of feminism at this critical time. Pink and girly, it told us, didn’t necessarily mean stupid and weak.”
― Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It) – The First Authoritative Book on the Teen Comedy That Defined a Generation