How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Mean Girls.
Quote #7
DUVALL: Now what the young ladies in this grade need is an attitude makeover, and you're gonna get it right now. I don't care how long it takes. I will keep you here all night.
JOAN THE SECRETARY: We can't keep them past 4:00.
DUVALL: I will keep you here until 4:00.
The faculty at North Shore—Mr. Duvall, in particular—don't hold nearly as much as power as the students do in Mean Girls.
Quote #8
CADY: I'm sorry.
NORBURY: I forgive you, but as my own personal form of punishment, I figured out how you're gonna earn that extra credit.
KEVIN: Wassup.
Ms. Norbury uses her power both as a teacher and as a person for whom Cady has respect in order to get what she wants: a Mathletes State Championship.
Quote #9
CADY'S MOM: Where's Cady?
CADY'S DAD: She went out.
CADY'S MOM: She's grounded.
CADY'S DAD: Are they not allowed out when they're grounded?
It's not just the North Shore faculty who are powerless in Mean Girls; the parents are all ineffective, too. Well, maybe not Gretchen's dad, the inventor of toaster strudel, but we don't ever meet him.