well, isn't it comforting to know that being miserable is still better than being an idiot?
Ruth Fisher
ooooh the unexpected one. actually it did surprise me as well. :D but as i was making my list of female characters she was one of the firsts that came to my mind without looking through my watchlist. she's a fascinating character, i just love watching her learning how to live. her husband dies in the very first episode and now it's like she's free for the first time, like a new life started for her. she slowly figures out she's much stronger than others have thought, i think she even surprised herself. she's becoming a much more confident woman as the show progresses, i think for the first time she's not putting others first, she's learning to actually take care of herself. also, she can be quite awkward which is always a bonus point with me (:
Ruth: You wanna hear the most horrible moment from my intimate past?
Robbie: No, sister, I do not.
Ruth: I was married to my husband for 30 years. I never slept with another man until I started having sex with my hairdresser. And the first time my hairdresser friend and I had intercourse...he asked me to pleasure myself, so he would know...you know, how I did that. And I couldn't. Because I had never pleasured myself in my life. I was 52 years old. And I had to learn how to... Masturbate. From a hairdresser.
Robbie: Well, Ruth, thank you for sharing that. But I'm still not gonna tell you about coming out to my parents.
Ruth: David, are you bringing a special friend to dinner?
David: Why are my friends always 'special'?
Ruth: Okay, then, is the man you're having sex with coming to dinner?
Ruth: Okay, I'm a terrible mother who's reponsible for all your problems, happy?
Plan Counselor: Who's buying Ruth's house? We don't believe your house is structurally sound, Ruth.
Ruth: Who knows better: me or a room full of complainers?
Plan Counselor: What do you really want to complain about? Really?
Ruth: The fact that the blood stopped circulating in my rear end four hours ago.
Plan Counselor: Okay, what else?
Ruth: You want me complain? Alright then, fuck this. Fuck you, fuck all of you with your sniveling self-pity. And fuck all your lousy parents. Fuck my lousy parents while we're at it. Fuck my selfish bohemian sister and her fucking bliss. Fuck my legless grandmother. Fuck my dead husband and my lousy children with their nasty little secrets. And fuck you Robbie for dragging me to this terrible place and not letting me have a Snickers bar! I'm going to get something to eat!
Ruth: Thank you. I've had the best time coming to this funny restaurant and having you yell at me in the bathroom!
Ruth: Nathaniel, what happened to us? We were so in love once.
Nathaniel: Life happened to us. I buried hundreds of people and we watched each other grow old.
Ruth: But we're not old.
Nathaniel: Well, technically speaking, I'm as old as I'm ever going to get.
Ruth: We were such children when we met. Then we watched those children disappear.