Julia Sugarbaker (from Designing Woman) quotes [View all]

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I loved the show Designing Women & especially feisty Julia Sugarbaker.

"Designing Women: The Candidate (#3.2)" (1988)
Julia: I do not think everyone in America is ignorant! Far from it! But we are today, probably, the most uneducated, under read, and illiterate nation in the western hemisphere. Which makes it all the more puzzling to me why the biggest question on your small mind is whether or not little Johnny is gonna recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning! I'll tell you something else, Mr. Brickett. I have had it up to here with you and your phony issues and your Yankee Doodle yakking! If you like reciting the Pledge of Allegiance everyday then I think you should do it! In the car! In the shower! Wherever the mood strikes you! But don't try to tell me when or where I have to say or do or salute anything, because I am an American too, and that is what being an American is all about! And another thing, I am sick and tired of being made to feel that if I am not a member of a little family with 2.4 children who goes just to Jerry Fallwell's church and puts their hands over their hearts every morning that I am unreligious, unpatriotic, and un-American! Because I've got news for you, Mr. Brickett. All liberals are not kooks, anymore than all conservatives are fascists! And the last time I checked, God was neither a Democratic nor a Republican! And just for your information, yes I am a liberal, but I am also a Christian. And I get down on my knees and pray everyday - on my own turf - on my own time. One of the things that I pray for, Mr. Brickett is that people with power will get good sense, and that people with good sense will get power... and that the rest of us will be blessed with the patience and the strength to survive the people like you in the meantime!

Mrs. Salinger: [Referring to homosexuals] I just know that these people are getting what they deserve!
Julia Sugarbaker: Imogene get serious, who do you think you're talking to? I've known you for 27 years and all i can say is if God was giving out sexually transmitted diseases to people as a punishment for sinning then you would be at the Free clinic all the time!

"Designing Women: 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station (#2.1)" (1987)
Julia Sugarbaker: [Eldon and Julia are looking at a book of wall paper samples and discussing how important it is to make the selection as the finish deadline approaches] Now, this is the wall paper we would like you to use. I know you said that the other wall paper made you dizzy...
Eldon Ashcroft IV: [Interrupts Julia] I don't like it.
Julia Sugarbaker: I beg your pardon?
Eldon Ashcroft IV: It doesn't have any red, white or blue, and I told you I wanted something that goes with the American flag.
Julia Sugarbaker: Yes, well, we've been all over that, but we simply cannot decorate around the American flag.
Eldon Ashcroft IV: Why not?
Julia Sugarbaker: Because no one puts a flagpole in the middle of the room.
Eldon Ashcroft IV: Why not?
Julia Sugarbaker: Because... it would look... ODD!
Eldon Ashcroft IV: Well, I thought... that the customer... was *always* right.
Julia Sugarbaker: Well, you... were *mistaken*
[drops the book on the ground]
Julia Sugarbaker: That was two weeks, 3 wall papers, 2 floor coverings, 11 sofas, 4 end tables and 16 LAMPS AGO! WE ARE NO LONGER *INTERESTED* IN WHAT THE CUSTOMER THINKS, OR WANTS, AND FURTHERMORE, THERE IS *NOT* GOING TO BE A VIBRATING BED WITH A PAY BOX OR A REVOLVING SCREEN LAMP WITH A CAMP SCENE! NOT AS LONG AS THE NAME *SUGARBAKER* RESTS ON THIS PROJECT! NOT NOW, NOT EVER! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

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