This Friday, noon to 5 p.m., Lifetime will air 10 episodes showcasing “Sophia” and all her sarcastic remarks starting with the show’s pilot.

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In honor of Estelle Getty’s role as Sophia on Golden Girls, VH1’s Best Week Ever compiled her greatest quotes here.

Above: Estelle Getty (as Sophia Spirelli Petrillo Weinstock), Rue McClanahan (as Blanche Elizabeth Hollingsworth Devereaux), Betty White (as Rose Lindstrom Nylund) and Beatrice Arthur (as Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak)

Bea Arthur said, “Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her.”

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Photo from EstelleGetty.com

Very sad news.

Surrounded by her family and caregivers, actress Estelle Getty — known for her role as the wise-cracking Sophia Petrillo on the Golden Girls — died Tuesday morning at her Los Angeles home.

She was 84 and was to turn 85 on Friday, reports Us Weekly.

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