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"Here's your basket of kisses."
--Season 1, Episode 6: "Babylon"
"I don't think anyone wants to be one of a hundred colors in a box."
--Season 1, Episode 6: "Babylon"
"Maybe you need me to lay on your couch to clear that up for you again."
--Season 1, Episode 10: "Long Weekend"
"I'm in the persuasion business. And frankly I'm disappointed by your presentation."
--Season 2, Episode 2: "Flight 1"
"I never expect Mr. Draper to be anything other than what he is."
--Season 2, Episode 5, "The New Girl"
"I don't know why I pick the wrong boys."
--Season 2, Episode 11: "The Jet Set"
"Pete, just tell the truth; don't worry about the outcome. People respect that."
--Season 2, Episode 13: "Meditations in an Emergency"
"You got me pregnant, I had a baby, and I gave it away."
--Season 2, Episode 13: "Meditations in an Emergency"
"Well. When he gets to "s", I need Howard Sullivan at Lever Brothers."
--Season 3, Episode 1: "Out of Town"
"I'm Peggy Olson. I want to smoke some marijuana."
--Season 3, Episode 3: "My Old Kentucky Home"
Peggy Olson is a copywriter at the newly formed Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. The Brooklyn native began at the original Sterling Cooper as Don Draper’s secretary; he promoted her to copywriter in recognition of her contributions to two successful campaigns.
Peggy and Don share a unique bond: When Don is arrested for drunk driving, he calls Peggy to bail him out. His companion during the incident, Bobbie Barrett, advises Peggy that only by treating Don as her equal can she advance her career. At Sterling Cooper, Peggy's attempts to gain equality achieve mixed results, though Don admires her talents enough to poach her for his new agency. She initially declines his offer because he acted as though her cooperation was a fait accompli, but joins the venture after he apologizes.
Peggy has had romantic affairs with co-workers past and present: An affair with Pete Campbell results in a pregnancy, which Peggy carries to term without realizing that she was expecting. Only well after the fact does she inform Pete of his child's existence. Currently Peggy is involved with Duck Phillips, formerly the Head of Accounts at Sterling Cooper, who pursued Peggy on behalf of his current agency, Grey. Though she declined his business overtures, the two began sleeping together.