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Joan HarrisPlayed by Christina Hendricks
With her husband Dr. Greg Harris in Vietnam, Joan’s mother moved in to help with Baby Kevin, allowing Joan to return to SCDP after maternity leave, where she found her role in the office more complicated than ever. Joan ended her marriage to Greg when he came home from Vietnam on leave and revealed that he had volunteered for another tour without consulting her. She fended off romantic advances by Lane Pryce but accepted a proposition by Pete Campbell to sleep with a client in order to land the Jaguar account, securing herself a partnership in the agency and Kevin a future.
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Joan Harris Quotes
“Go home, take a paper bag, cut some eyeholes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest.”Season 1, Episode 1: “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
“He may act like he wants a secretary, but most of the time they’re looking for something between a mother and a waitress.”Season 1, Episode 1: “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
“This is why I don’t allow crying in the break room. It erodes morale. There’s a place to do that, like you’re apartment.”Season 2, Episode 1: “For Those Who Think Young”
“It’s so obvious why you’re going out with her.”Season 2, Episode 2: “Flight 1″
“Your decolletage is distracting.”Season 2, Episode 5, “The New Girl”
“What on God’s green earth are you doing here?”Season 2, Episode 5, “The New Girl”
“Stop dressing like a little girl.”Season 2, Episode 6, “Maidenform”
“Fun-loving girl, responsible sometimes. Likes to laugh, lives to love seeks size six for city living and general galavanting. No dull moments or dull men tolerated.”Season 3, Episode 4: “The Arrangements”
“When you wake up in the middle of the night and wonder what you forgot, don’t call me.”Season 3, Episode 3: “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”
“That’s life. One minute, you’re on top of the world. The next, some secretary is running over your foot with a lawn motor.”Season 3, Episode 3: “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”
“I thought American men were bad enough, but none of them has ever so consistently made me feel like a helpless, stupid little girl.”Season 4, Episode 3: “The Good News”
“I’m not a solution to your problems. I’m another problem.”Season 4, Episode 11: “Chinese Wall”
“I was just made Director of Agency Operations. A title, no money of course. And if they poured champagne, it must have been while I was pushing the mailcart.”Season 4, Episode 13: “Tomorrowland”
“Yes, honey, they’re bigger.”Season 4, Episode 13: “Tomorrowland”










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