Designing Women Quotes. I love this show!
"I think everyone is a character, just that some of us haven't meet the right writer," Dash Goth, the writer. Wow, I could write a whole essay about the ideas that quote gives me.
"We're not just talking about preventing births anymore, we're talking about preventing deaths. For me, this debate is over," Mary Jo to the PTA about supplying condoms in school just as the AIDS crisis starts.
"She was the kind of woman who would have dated Lee Harvey Oswald in high school," Mary Jo about Charlene.
"Why did we get married?" Suzane to Dash.
"Because I wanted to be a writer and I felt I hadn't suffered enough."
"And why did we get divorced?"
"Because I had."
I'm so happy this show is out on DVD now. Season Two is just great. I could watch it over and over. The writing is so great! Each woman's voice is so unique and perfect. and it's a very real capture of how women's friendships work.
"Yesterday, in my mind's eye, I saw four women standing on a veranda in white, gauzy dresses and straw-colored hats. They were having a conversation. And it was hot. Their hankies tucked in cleavages where eternal trickles of perspiration run from the female breastbone to exotic vacation spots that southern men often dream about. They were sweet-smelling, coy, cunning, voluptuous, voracious, delicious, pernicious, vexing and sexing... these earth sister/rebel mothers... these arousers and carousers. And I was filled with a longing to join them. But like a whim of Scarlett's, they turned suddenly and went inside, shutting me out with a bolt of a latch. And I was left only to pick up an abandoned handkerchief and savor the perfumed shadows of these women... these southern women. This Suzanne. This Julia. This Mary Jo and Charlene. Thanks for the comfort" Dash Goff... the writer in his good bye letter.