diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 30213363..8ec9030c 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ We can view the server's response headers using a Python dictionary::
 
     >>> r.headers
     {
-        'status': '200 OK',
         'content-encoding': 'gzip',
         'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
         'connection': 'close',