The Stepford Wives (1975)

Katharine Ross: Joanna Eberhart

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• Joanna Eberhart : Why do they call you Diz?

  Dale Coba : Because I used to work at Disneyland.

  Joanna Eberhart : No, really.

  Dale Coba : That's really. Don't you believe me?

  Joanna Eberhart : No.

  Dale Coba : Why not?

  Joanna Eberhart : You don't look like someone who enjoys making other people happy.

• Joanna Eberhart : I can't just call him up and say, "Hi! I used be Joanna Ingalls. You deflowered me twelve years ago. Would you check my water?"

• Dale Coba : It's nothing like you imagine, just a, another stage. Think about it like that, and there's nothing to it.

  Joanna Eberhart : Why?

  Dale Coba : Why? Because we can.

• Dale Coba : [Joanna is brewing coffee]  I like to watch women doing little domestic chores.

  Joanna Eberhart : You came to the right town.

• Joanna Eberhart : If I am wrong, I'm insane... but if I'm right, it's even worse than if I was wrong.

• Joanna Eberhart : [ambulance drives off]  We may be new here, but isn't Stepford Hospital that way?

  Walter Eberhart : Oh, no, no, no, you're wrong... No, no, you're *not* wrong, the ambulance went *that* way, didn't it?

• Joanna Eberhart : [Showing her photos to her NYC Dealer and Gallery Owner]  Am I crazy? Aren't they good? Please say something. I don't care. No, I do care. Don't say anything bad.

  Mr. Atkinson : These are, um, really quite good.

  Joanna Eberhart : You're not just saying that be cause you're frightened I, I might be a crazy lady?

  Mr. Atkinson : Clearly you are a crazy lady, but clearly again, these are nice.

  Joanna Eberhart : Wait a minute. You said 'Good'. 'Really quite good' you said. 'Good' is better than 'nice'. You're not changing your mind, are you?

  Mr. Atkinson : No, the results are lovely. Don't get upset again. 'Lovely' is better than 'good'. But, um, what fascinates me is: What is it you want from it all? Do you know?

  Joanna Eberhart : I want - somewhere, someday, someone to look at something and say 'Hey, that reminds me of an Ingalls'. 'Ingalls' was my maiden name. I guess I want to be remembered.

  Mr. Atkinson : Yes, don't we all?

• [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!

• Mary Ann Stavros : I'm sorry. I just can't waste my spare moments on something like that.

  Joanna Eberhart : But you do go out sometimes don't you?

  Mary Ann Stavros : Go out? Of course I go out. I'm out now, aren't I?

• 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!

• Joanna Eberhart : [Joanna responding to Claude's request for her to do his speech recording project]  ... just like your wife. Bobby and I tried to involve her in one of our projects, but she had too much ironing. Maybe you could convince her. Kit Sundersen, too. If they could find the time for me... I could find it for you.

  Claude Axhelm : Isn't this uh... kind of blackmail, Joanna?

  Joanna Eberhart : It's what made this country great, Claude.

• Ike Mazzard : [Handing drawing to Joanna]  In case you're wondering what I've been doing.

  Joanna Eberhart : You're not the Ike Mazzard are you?

  Ike Mazzard : I'm afraid so.

  Joanna Eberhart : Walter tell him, I'm just awful on names. You'll have to forgive me. I used to gawk at all those girls in those magazines. You blighted my adolescence, you know that?

  Walter Eberhart : [Grinning]  I thought I benighted your adolescence.

• Joanna Eberhart : I won't be here when you get back, don't you see? It's going to happen before then. Don't ask me to explain it, I just know. There'll be somebody with my name, and she'll cook and clean like crazy, but she won't take pictures, and she won't be me! She'll - she'll, she'll be like one of those the robots in Disneyland.

  Dr. Fancher : Alright, now listen. I'll give you a prescription which you have filled, then you gather up your children and you GET THE HELL AWAY! Don't tell your husband, don't tell anyone, just go, wherever you feel safe. Now, do you have family?

  Joanna Eberhart : They're dead.

  Dr. Fancher : Well, just drive, and stop some place. Then in a few days - I'll be back on the 10th - you ring me, I'll come to you, and we'll sort this thing out. Now how does that sound?

• Joanna Eberhart : This is not me and what you're saying isn't you.

• Joanna Eberhart : I guess I want to be remembered.