Peggy Gravel Quotes in Desperate Living (1977)

Peggy Gravel: Why did you tell me to come this way, Grizelda? You know I hate nature! Look at those disgusting trees, stealing my oxygen. Oh, I can't stand this scenery another minute. All natural forests should be turned into housing developments! I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation. Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?

Peggy Gravel: Hello? What number are you calling? You've dialed the wrong number! Sorry? What good is that? How can you ever repay the last thirty seconds you have stolen from my life? I hate you, your husband, your children, and your relatives!

Peggy Gravel: Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some communist daycare center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!

Bosley Jr.: [Kids are in the attic playing doctor] Breathe hard. Do it again.

Beth: [Giggles as she breathes] Let me do it to you.

Peggy Gravel: [Enters room and goes berserk when she sees the kids] SODOMITES!

[Rushes to them]

Peggy Gravel: CAUGHT RIGHT IN A SEX ORGY! FILTHY! DIRTY! FILTHY!

Bosley Jr.: [Crying] We're only playing!

Peggy Gravel: [Slapping them] Is that what you learned in private school?

Beth: Don't, Mother, we're only playing!

Peggy Gravel: [Hysterically to herself] NUDE! NUDE! NUDE!

[Suddenly seriously]

Peggy Gravel: You could be pregnant, Beth!

[to Bosley, Jr]

Peggy Gravel: And YOU... I never thought you'd rape your own sister!

[Suddenly wildly, to no one in particular]

Peggy Gravel: OH GOD, THE CHILDREN ARE HAVING SEX!

Peggy Gravel: Have I gone to Hell? Is that it? Have I gone straight to Hell?

Peggy Gravel: Go ahead, feel her up! Just like you did to me! Find em, feel em, fuck em, forget em... is THAT your new motto?

Grizelda Brown: Zip that gaping hole of a mouth up, Peggy, before I plug it up with my fist.

Peggy Gravel: You're just like all the rest of the common dykes in this town!

Grizelda Brown: You better calm yourself down before I haul off and smack you upside your wide, wide head. We killed your husband. And I ain't your maid anymore bitch. I'm your sister in crime.

Peggy Gravel: Please, don't sit on me!

Peggy Gravel: [to cop in lingerie] Will you please stop it! I have never found the antics of deviants to be one bit amusing!

Peggy Gravel: [to cop in lingerie] No, please not a kiss, I swear I'll gag! Mount me if you must but not a kiss!

Peggy Gravel: Peggy is about to die from being shot up the ass by Mole. Peggy: You're so low you make white trash look positively top drawer!

Mole McHenry: Mole: Oh, blow it out your ass!