Stepford Wives Quotes

• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  Ira Levin

  Real, Nice, Wife

  Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Jobs, Wife, Matter

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

  Glenn Close

  Book, Thinking, Wife

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• I laughed my way through The Stepford Wives.

  Cathleen McGuigan

  Wife, Way, Laughed

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• For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

  Na'ima B. Robert

  Couple, Men, Wife

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