Mad Men
Season 3. Sundays at 10PM| 9C.
January Jones as Betty Draper
Quotes
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"If the clothes from that dry cleaning bag are on the floor of my closet, you're going to be a very sorry young lady."
--Season 1, Episode 2: "The Ladies Room"
"Honestly, I think she's jealous of me. I've seen it before, I was in a sorority."
--Season 1, Episode 4: "New Amsterdam"
"My mother always said, 'You're painting a masterpiece, make sure to hide the brush strokes.'"
--Season 1, Episode 7: "Red in the Face"
"As far as I’m concerned, as long as men look at me that way, I’m earning my keep."
--Season 1, Episode 7: "Red in the Face"
"Still, I can't help but think that I'd be happy if my husband was faithful to me." "The way he makes love -- sometimes its what I want and sometimes, its obivously what someone else wants."
--Season 1, Episode 13: "The Wheel"
"I know people say life goes on, and it does, and no one tells you that’s not a good thing. Why is that?"
--Season 1, Episode 10: "Long Weekend"
"Somewhere there’s a pregnant girl floating in a lake."
--Season 2, Episode 3: "The Benefactor"
Arthur: "You're so profoundly sad."
Betty: "No, it's just that my people are Nordic."
--Season 2, Episode 3: "The Benefactor"
"I'm here all day alone with them. Out-numbered!"
--Season 2, Episode 4: "Three Sundays"
"I would never do this to you. How could you do this to me?"
--Season 2, Episode 8: "A Night to Remember"
"Go bang your head against the wall. Only boring people are bored."
--Season 3, Episode 6: "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"
"What's a matter Don? Don't know where you will be in three years?"
--Season 3, Episode 7: "Seven Twenty Three"
"You don't kiss boys, boys kiss you."
--Season 3, Episode 8: "Souvenir"
"I hate this place. I hate our friends. I hate this town."
--Season 3, Episode 8: "Souvenir"
About
Betty Draper is the wife of Don Draper, partner and Creative Director at Sterling Cooper. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Betty was working as a model when she met Don. They now live in Ossining, New York with three children: Sally, Bobby and Gene.
Hardly without worries, Betty spent some time seeing a psychiatrist only to discover that the doctor was giving regular reports of her sessions to Don. For relaxation, Betty goes horseback riding with friend Sarah Beth; at the stables, she struck up a friendship with Arthur Case, an inexperienced equestrian who confessed to having a crush on her. Betty's closest friend is her neighbor Francine Hanson; she also has a strong connection to Glen Bishop, the young son of divorcee Helen Bishop.
No stranger to marital difficulties herself, Betty learned that Don had an affair with stand-up comic Jimmy Barrett's wife, Bobbie. Although Don denied the accusation, Betty asked him to leave their home. When her father suffered a stroke, Betty and Don briefly reconciled. Upon learning she was pregnant, Betty debated terminating the pregnancy, but decided to keep it and let Don return home -- after he wrote her a letter explaining how much he loves her.
During their separation, however, Betty had a backroom tryst with a stranger at a bar.
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