The Stepford Wives (1975)

Paula Prentiss: Bobby Markowe

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Quotes 

• Bobbie Markowe : I can't figure out this burg. It's like maids have been declared illegal, and the housewife with the neatest place gets Robert Redford for Christmas. And believe me, if that's the prize, I'd enter, but nobody'll tell what the contest rules are. Cheers!

• Bobbie Markowe : [after being stabbed]  Joanna! How could you do a thing like that? How could you do a thing like that? How could you do a thing like that? When I was just going to give you coffee. When I was just going to give you coffee! When I was just going to give you coffee! I thought we were friends! I thought we were friends! I was just going to give you coffee! I was just going to give you coffee! I thought we were friends... I thought we were friends... I thought we were friends. How could you *do* a thing like that? I thought we were friends.

• Bobbie Markowe : If you're going to tell me you don't like this dress, I'm sticking my head right in the oven.

• Bobbie Markowe : I'm also an ex-Gothamite, who's been living here in Ajax country for just over a month now, and I'm going crazy. You see doctor, my problem is that given complete freedom of choice, I don't WANT to squeeze the goddamn Charmin!

• Bobbie Markowe : Dave turned me loose at Bergdorf's and I went mad!

• Bobbie Markowe : If I was forced to apologize every time I got smashed, I'd spend my whole life wandering around saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

• [last lines] 

  Joanna Eberhart : Hello, Bobbie.

  Bobbie Markowe : Oh, hello, Joanna.

  Joanna Eberhart : How are you?

  Bobbie Markowe : I'm fine. How are you?

  Joanna Eberhart : I'm fine. How are the children?

  Bobbie Markowe : Fine...

• Joanna Eberhart : I've told you, I messed a little bit with women's lib in New York.

  Bobbie Markowe : Didn't we all?

  Joanna Eberhart : I'm not contemplating any Maidenform bonfires, but they could certainly use something around here.

  Bobbie Markowe : Oh yeah.

  Joanna Eberhart : You game?

  Bobbie Markowe : I'm game. Boy, am I game!

• Joanna Eberhart : What do you think they do up there?

  Bobbie Markowe : Watch dirty movies and reminisce about the Good Old Days.

  Joanna Eberhart : What Good Old Days?

  Bobbie Markowe : Like those Good Old Days when "Playboy" used the airbrush!

• Mary Ann Stavros : [holding up some pink carnations to Bobbie]  Which one do you like?

  Bobbie Markowe : Oh... ah... hmmmm... I don't think either one.

• Bobbie Markowe : Two things I always carry: Tampax and Ring Dings. And I don't even wanna think what that means.

• Bobbie Markowe : I think there's something in the water that turns us into house fraus.

• Bobbie Markowe : I think there's something in the water that turns us into house-fraus!