The Facts of Life (TV Series)
Read No Evil (1982)
Nancy McKeon: Jo Polniaczek
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Quotes
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Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Well I hope you're satisfied, they're never gonna let us in the library again!
Natalie Green : I was upset!
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : You didn't have to yell like that! A library is like a church, it's supposed to be peaceful and QUIET!
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Edna Garrett : What's the problem, Natalie?
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Please, don't get her started.
Natalie Green : Okay, I'm IN the library!
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Too late.
Natalie Green : And I'm doing research for a paper, right? OKAY! So I go to the shelf to get last month's Ms. Magazine, and it isn't there!
Edna Garrett : So?
Natalie Green : So, I go to the front desk and ask Miss Muldoon if it's been checked out. She tells me the subscription to Ms. was cancelled, isn't that strange?
Edna Garrett : A little, considering all the feminists on campus.
Natalie Green : That's what I said! Then she tells me that certain elements of Ms. Magazine were considered offensive!
Edna Garrett : Offensive?
Natalie Green : That's what I said! Then I find out books have been taken out of the library too for reevaluation!
Geri Tyler : What does that mean?
Natalie Green : I'll tell you what that means!
Edna Garrett : Censorship.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : That's what I said!
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Edna Garrett : Are you sure about this?
Natalie Green : [hands her a list] If you're thinking about checking any of these books out of the library, forget about it.
Edna Garrett : The Fixer, Catch-22, and Slaughterhouse-Five?
Blair Warner : Slaughterhouse-Five, I wrote my term paper on that last year. It was brilliant.
Geri Tyler : That was a good book!
Blair Warner : I was talking about my paper.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Well nobody's going to be writing about it this year.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : How come?
Natalie Green : Because it's offensive!
Geri Tyler : Sounds like book-banning to me.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Isn't that illegal?
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Edna Garrett : Well I'm going right to the library and talk to Miss Muldoon.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Don't waste your time. Mrs. G, you know the way things are, you can't beat the system.
Edna Garrett : Jo, if something's going on here that I feel is wrong, I have to speak out. It's a responsibility, not an option.
Natalie Green : You see, Jo? We can't take this lying down.
Edna Garrett : That's right, what're you going to do about it, Natalie?
Natalie Green : What?
Edna Garrett : Come on Natalie, you're the editor of the school paper. Print headlines, write editorials, take it to the people, make some noise, make a lot of noise!
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Natalie Green : [Natalie's been fired as the school editor] They can't do that, can they, Mrs. Garrett?
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Sure they can, you're a kid, they want you to be quiet they tell you to shut up.
Edna Garrett : And when you're an adult, they ask you to cooperate.
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Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Hey where'd you get the newsletter?
Edna Garrett : Mrs. Schuster gave it to me. Oh girls it's so good to know there are more important things in your life than just 'oh Richard, Richard, Richard'.
Natalie Green : How did you know it was us?
Edna Garrett : Your style is unmistakable, Natalie.
Natalie Green : Yeah. Buffy Klein, eat your heart out.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : We had to do something.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Yeah, we figured the parents had to know what was going on up here.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : So, we printed up a list of the banned books and Nat's editorial.
Natalie Green : Signed your ex-editor.
Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : And mailed copies to all the Eastland parents.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Wait till Mr. Parker gets the Xerox bills.
Natalie Green : And we put each of the letters in an envelope marked: Notice of Expulsion, so they'd be sure and be opened.