Stephanie Hodge: Jennie Malloy

Quotes 

• Tiffany Malloy : Hi, Mom! What's for dinner?

  Jennie Malloy : [in elated state, to Jack:]  Tiffany spoke to me! And about food!

  [to her daughter:] 

  Jennie Malloy : Oh, you must be in love!

  Tiffany Malloy : I met a boy!

  Jennie Malloy : Oh, we always hoped it would be a boy!

  Tiffany Malloy : Oh, but Mom, he's not just *any* boy. He's a motorcycle boy.

  Jennie Malloy : [immediately in a huff, with her hands on her hips:]  A motorcycle boy? They're all the same, they're a dead end. Don't go out with him!

  Tiffany Malloy : Sure, Mom. Your word is law.

  Jennie Malloy : Look, honey, I know they're sexy and it's thrilling to be with him, but you put that one moment, that one moment of

  [gets rhapsodic:] 

  Jennie Malloy : incredible heart-pounding wall-slamming rip-snorting pleasure that goes *on and on and on* until nothing else will ever satisfy you again! Now you put that up against a long lifetime with a man like your father... Solid, sensible, *predictable*... Oh, why did you leave me, Bobby Joe Satan?

  Tiffany Malloy : Mom... You went out with a guy named Satan?

  Jennie Malloy : I used to write 'Jenny Satan' all over my school-books. Well, it had a ring to it! You know, "The doctor will see you now, Mrs. Satan"... "Your laundry is ready, Mrs. Satan" and "We haven't seen you in church lately, Mrs. Satan." Oh, Tiffany,

  [fawns over her and Ryan] 

  Jennie Malloy : you could have been Satan's children!

  Ryan Malloy : Guess you haven't been in Ross' room lately, huh, Ma?